What is the fastest way to convert string to array in python?

Question

This is a line I read from a text file:

[54, 95, 45, -97, -51, 84, 0, 32, -55, 14, 50, 54, 68, -3, 57, 88, -1]

I used readline() to read it

Answer 1

If that's the string, go here http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#eval

>>> s = "[54, 95, 45, -97, -51, 84, 0, 32, -55, 14, 50, 54, 68, -3, 57, 88, -1]"
>>> eval(s)
[54, 95, 45, -97, -51, 84, 0, 32, -55, 14, 50, 54, 68, -3, 57, 88, -1]