CODE EXAMPLE FOR PYTHON

turn string of list into list object python

# Python code to demonstrate converting 
# string representation of list to list
# using strip and split
  
# initializing string representation of a list
ini_list = "[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]"
  
# printing initialized string of list and its type
print ("initial string", ini_list)
print (type(ini_list))
  
# Converting string to list
res = ini_list.strip('][').split(', ')
  
# printing final result and its type
print ("final list", res)
print (type(res))