Another solution, possibly safer: >>> from cStringIO import StringIO >>> import csv >>> s = "[16, 16, 2, 16, 2, 16, 8, 16]" >>> sf = StringIO(s.strip()[1:-1]) >>> list(csv.reader(sf)) [['16', ' 16', ' 2', ' 16', ' 2', ' 16', ' 8', ' 16']]
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