Question

my String looks like:

"('f', ('d', ('a', 'b')), 'g')"

I want to convert that to tuple.
How can do that… I will use that in drawing a dendogram

Edit:
additional explanation:
my code and output’s (print’s):

print type(myString)                     # <type 'str'>
print myString                           #('f',('d',('a','b')),'g')
myString = ast.literal_eval(myString)
print type(myString)                     #<type 'tuple'>
print myString                           #('f', ('d', ('a', 'b')), 'g')

for tuple in myString:                   #f
    print tuple                          #('d', ('a', 'b'))
                                         #g

Answer 1

Use ast.literal_eval.

This will not let some malicious scripts run from the string provided as with eval.