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user10702710
user10702710

Reputation:

Convert string list to non-string list

In Python, I want to convert all strings in a list to non-string.

So if I have:

results =  ["['new','york','intrepid', 'bumbling']","['duo', 'deliver', 'good', 'one']"]

How do I make it:

 results =  [['new','york','intrepid', 'bumbling'],['duo', 'deliver', 'good', 'one']]

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1502

Answers (2)

glhr
glhr

Reputation: 4547

Using literal_eval() from ast is much safer than eval():

import ast

results =  ["['new','york','intrepid', 'bumbling']","['duo', 'deliver', 'good', 'one']"]
results_parsed = [ast.literal_eval(x) for x in results]
print(results_parsed)

Output:

[['new', 'york', 'intrepid', 'bumbling'], ['duo', 'deliver', 'good', 'one']]

ast.literal_eval() only parses strings containing a literal structure (strings, bytes, numbers, tuples, lists, dicts, sets, booleans, and None), not arbitrary Python expressions.

Upvotes: 0

andnik
andnik

Reputation: 2804

How about eval if you don't need to verify the correctness of input variables:

results = [eval(x) for x in results]

Upvotes: 1

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