Harvey Greenberg writes:
> On Saturday, October 5, 2013 7:24:39 PM UTC-6, Tim Chase wrote:
> > >>> s = "[{'a':1, 'b':2}, [1,2,3], 10]"
> > >>> import ast
> > >>> print repr(ast.literal_eval(s))
> > [{'a': 1, 'b': 2}, [1, 2, 3], 10]
>
> that didn't work. printing it looks like the list because it's the
> input, but try printing len(repr(ast.literal_eval(s))). It should
> give 3, but it gives 72 (number of chars).
Not sure what the "print repr( )" is meant to achieve here, but I
think you should be able to see through it:
>>> ast.literal_eval(s)
[{'a': 1, 'b': 2}, [1, 2, 3], 10]
>>> len(ast.literal_eval(s))
3
>>>
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