Convert a string to a list of floats (in python)

Question

For data storage purposes I am trying to recover lists of floats from a .txt file. From the string like:

a = \'[1.3, 2.3, 4.5]\'

I want to recover:<

Answer 1

You can also use a more manual way:

[eval(x) for x in '[1.3, 2.3, 4.5]'.strip("[").strip("]").split(",")]
Out[64]: [1.3, 2.3, 4.5]