python convert string of lists into a list of lists [duplicate]

Answer 1

>>> import json
>>> json.loads("[[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]]")
[[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]]

İt's way easy :)

>>> a = "[[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]]"
>>> import ast
>>> m=ast.literal_eval(a)
>>> m
[[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]]

Also this works