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

If you're working with a CSV file, and you want more than the "naive" solution which doesn't handle any errors, you're probably best off using the Python's CSV module.