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I'm trying to make a python program that when you input a code, it executes it. It has 2 problems and I need to fix it. I want it when you executed the code, it gets stored in a variable I want't the ...

str() turns data into strings but is it possible to undo this with a built in function? exe: str1 = '{"a": 1, "b": 2}' is there a function that can turn this into a dictionary? ...

I want to evaluate an expression in Python 3.7 that is read as string from a config file. The application is a Datalogger and the user shall be able to define his own conversion of the raw ADC value ...

The book that I am reading on Python repeatedly shows code like eval(input('blah')). How exactly does this modify the result from calling input? See also: Why is using 'eval' a bad practice? ...

Sometimes when I get input from a file or the user, I get a string with escape sequences in it. I would like to process the escape sequences in the same way that Python processes escape sequences in ...

I have an n-by-m Pandas DataFrame df defined as follows. (I know this is not the best way to do it. It makes sense for what I'm trying to do in my actual code, but that would be TMI for this post so ...

I'm trying to read in a string representation of a Tuple from a file, and add the tuple to a list. Here's the relevant code. raw_data = userfile.read().split('\n') for a in raw_data : print a ...

I am using getopt to process a command line optional argument, which should accept a list. Something like this: foo.py --my_list=[1, 2, 3, 4,5] But this trims everything after "[1," My questions ...

Why do I get this error message: ValueError: malformed node or string when I pass data in the below format into the "parse_webhook" function? Thanks! webhook_data = {"side": "...

How would I convert the following string to an array with Python (this string could have an indefinite number of items)? '["Foo","Bar","Baz","Woo"]' This is ...

if I have a string with characters ( 0x61 0x62 0xD ), the repr function of this string will return 'ab\r'. Is there way to do reverse operation: if I have string 'ab\r' (with characters 0x61 0x62 ...

Here is my example: >>> a=input ('some text : ') # value entered is 1,1 >>> print (a) 1,1 I want as a result a tuple (1, 1) How can I do this?

I have a file where on each line I have text like this (representing cast of a film): [{'cast_id': 23, 'character': "Roger 'Verbal' Kint", 'credit_id': '52fe4260c3a36847f8019af7', 'gender': 2, 'id': ...

I would like to multiply all elements of a list by a number. I know the other ways to do it but I want to know Why isn't this working? I am getting the very same list as an output. lst = eval(input('...

I have a user entered string which is already in tuple format and would like to convert/cast it to a actual tuple in python. How can I do this? E.g: strTup = '(5, 6)' Would like to convert the above ...