On Thursday 16 April 2009 03:52:02 pm johnf wrote: > I am dealing with a database field that can only store strings. > I want to save the list to the field and when I retrieve the string convert > it back to a list. > > But this does NOT work. > mylist=[1,2,3,4] > mystr=str(mylist) > > newlist= list(mystr) > > I keep thinking there must be a simple way of get this done.
Is this a good way? newlist = eval(mystr) -- John Fabiani _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
