I have a list of strings, which I need to convert into tuples. If the
string is not in python tuple format (i.e. "('one', 'two')", "("one",
'two')", etc.), then I can just make it a 1-tuple (i.e. return
(string,) ). If it is in python tuple format, I need to parse it and
return the appropriate tuple (it's ok to keep all tuple elements as
strings).
I think eval() will work for this, but I don't know what will be in
the string, so I don't feel comfortable using that.
I tried coming up with a regex, but the best I can get with my limit
knowledge right now is:
matches = re.match("\(['\"](.*)['\"], ['\"](.*)['\"]\)", string)
which works well enough for my purposes (even though I know it's far
from proper), except that it only captures as 2-tuples, and I need to
be able to capture n-tuples. Can someone help point me to the correct
re or a better way to solve this?
Thanks in advance,
Daniel
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