Convert string to List so square bracket will be eliminated and will be a list

Question

'[1, 2]' 

It is a string. How to I make it List [1,2]

So convertion from '[1, 2]' to [1,2]

Answer 1

You have a couple of options

eval

eval('[1, 2]')
# [1, 2]

ast.literal_eval

import ast
ast.literal_eval('[1, 2]')
# [1, 2]

string parsing

list(map(int, '[1, 2]'.strip('[]').split(', ')))
# [1, 2]