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

def parse(s):
    tuples = s.split('), ')
    out = []
    for x in tuples:
        a,b = x.strip('()').split(', ')
        out.append((float(a),float(b)))
    return out

this should do the job.