Malformed String ValueError ast.literal_eval() with String representation of Tuple

Question

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().spl         


        

Answer 1

Use eval() instead of ast.literal_eval() if the input is trusted (which it is in your case).

raw_data = userfile.read().split('\n')
for a in raw_data : 
    print a
    btc_history.append(eval(a))

This works for me in Python 3.6.0