Question

If a user types in [[0,0,0], [0,0,1], [1,1,0]] and press enter,
the program should convert this string to several lists;
one list holding [0][0][0], other for [0][0][1], and the last list for [1][1][0]

Does python have a good way to handle this?

Answer 1

This is a little more flexible than Satoru’s, and doesn’t use any libraries. Still, it won’t work with more deeply nested lists. For that, I think you would need a recursive function (or loop), or eval.

str = "[[0,0,0],[0,0,1],[1,1,0]]"
strs = str.replace('[','').split('],')
lists = [map(int, s.replace(']','').split(',')) for s in strs]

lists now contains the list of lists you want.