Convert unicode list into python list -

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s = u"['1', '2', '2', '1', '2']" print type(s) # <type 'unicode'> 

how can convert list here:

s = [1,2,2,1,2] 

you use ast.literal_eval function.

>>> import ast >>> s = u"['1', '2', '2', '1', '2']" >>> list(map(int, ast.literal_eval(s))) [1, 2, 2, 1, 2] 

or

>>> [int(i) in ast.literal_eval(s)] [1, 2, 2, 1, 2]