Converting strings into another data type, Python

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I have the string "(0, 0, 0)". I'd like to be able to convert this to a tuple. The built in tuple function doesn't work for my purposes because it treats each character as an individual item. I want to be able to convert "(0, 0, 0)" to (0, 0, 0) programmatically.

GWW · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-14 05:11:53Z

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You can use ast.literal_eval

>>> import ast
>>> ast.literal_eval('(0,0,0)')
(0, 0, 0)

answered Oct 14, 2011 at 5:11

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David Z Over a year ago

Or eval(string, {}, {}) in pre-2.6, where ast doesn't exist

rectangletangle Over a year ago

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks! Also David Zaslavsky, in my case it's 2.7.2 so that doesn't matter. Good information, nonetheless.

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