converting string to tuple in python

Question

I have a string returnd from a software like \"(\'mono\')\" from that I needed to convert string to tuple .

that I was thinking using ast.literal_eval

Answer 1

I assume that the desired output is a tuple with a single string: ('mono',)

A tuple of one has a trailing comma in the form (tup,)

a = '(mono)'
a = a[1:-1] # 'mono': note that the parenthesis are removed removed 
            # if they are inside the quotes they are treated as part of the string!
b = tuple([a]) 
b
> ('mono',)
# the final line converts the string to a list of length one, and then the list to a tuple