From: bhuzyk at kodak.com (Bruce Huzyk)
Date: 12 Apr 1999 21:05:11 GMT
Subject: Converting a string to a tuple
Message-ID: <01be8530$65bb7120$52037e81@saints>
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Here is a basic problem that is causing me much stress:

I have a string a = '(1, "abc\\def", 2)' that I would like to convert to a
tuple. 

I have tried eval(), but it interprets the backslashes.




