Parsing a string which represents a list of tuples

Question

I have strings which look like this one:

\"(8, 12.25), (13, 15), (16.75, 18.5)\"

and I would like to convert each of them into a python dat

Answer 1

>>> import ast
>>> print ast.literal_eval("(8, 12.25), (13, 15), (16.75, 18.5)")
((8, 12.25), (13, 15), (16.75, 18.5))