Python | Convert string enclosed list to list
Given a list enclosed within string (or quotes), write a Python program to convert the given string to list type.
Examples:
Input : "[0, 2, 9, 4, 8]" Output : [0, 2, 9, 4, 8] Input : "['x', 'y', 'z']" Output : ['x', 'y', 'z']
Approach #1 : Python eval()
The eval() method parses the expression passed to this method and runs python expression (code) within the program. Here it takes the list enclosed within quotes as expression and runs it, and finally returns the list.
# Python3 program to ways to convert # list enclosed within string to list def convert(lst): return eval(lst) # Driver codelst = "[0, 2, 9, 4, 8]"print(convert(lst)) |
[0, 2, 9, 4, 8]
Approach #2 : Using literal_eval()
literal_eval() function works same as eval() with the only difference that it raises an exception if the input isn’t a valid Python datatype, the code won’t be executed.
# Python3 program to ways to convert # list enclosed within string to listfrom ast import literal_eval def convert(lst): return literal_eval(lst) # Driver codelst = "[0, 2, 9, 4, 8]"print(convert(lst)) |
[0, 2, 9, 4, 8]
Approach #3 : Using json.loads()
# Python3 program to ways to convert # list enclosed within string to listfrom json import loads def convert(lst): return loads(lst) # Driver codelst = "[0, 2, 9, 4, 8]"print(convert(lst)) |
[0, 2, 9, 4, 8]
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