how to convert string to list or tuple

[flyaflya]

a = "(1,2,3)"
I want convert a to tuple:(1,2,3),but tuple(a) return ('(', '1', ',',
'2', ',', '3', ')') not (1,2,3)

[Simon Brunning]

On 5/26/05, flyaflya <fl******@gmail.com> wrote:

a = "(1,2,3)"
I want convert a to tuple:(1,2,3),but tuple(a) return ('(', '1', ',',
'2', ',', '3', ')') not (1,2,3)

Short answer - use eval().

Long answer - *don't* use eval unless you are in control of the source
of the string that you are evaluating.

--
Cheers,
Simon B,
si***@brunningonline.net,
http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/

[Fredrik Lundh]

"flyaflya" <fl******@gmail.com> wrote:

a = "(1,2,3)"
I want convert a to tuple:(1,2,3),but tuple(a) return ('(', '1', ',',
'2', ',', '3', ')') not (1,2,3)

if you trust the source, use

eval(a)

if you don't trust it, you can use, say

tuple(int(x) for x in re.findall("\d+", a))

or, perhaps

tuple(int(x) for x in a[1:-1].split(","))

or some variation thereof.

(if you're using a version older than 2.4, add brackets inside
the tuple() call:

tuple([int(x) for x in a[1:-1].split(",")])

etc.

</F>

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 26 May 2005 19:53:38 +0800, flyaflya wrote:

a = "(1,2,3)"
I want convert a to tuple:(1,2,3),but tuple(a) return ('(', '1', ',',
'2', ',', '3', ')') not (1,2,3)

Others have already given some suggestions. Here are some others.

You didn't say where the input string a came from. Do you control
it? Instead of using:

String_Tuple_To_Real_Tuple("(1,2,3)")

can you just create the tuple in the first place?

a = (1, 2, 3)

Second suggestion: if you know that the input string will ALWAYS be in the
form "(1,2,3)" then you can do this:

a = "(1,2,3)"
a = a[1:-1] # deletes leading and trailing parentheses
a = a.split(",") # creates a list ["1", "2", "3"] (items are strings)
a = [int(x) for x in a] # creates a list [1, 2, 3] (items are integers)
a = tuple(a) # coverts to a tuple

or as a one-liner:

a = "(1,2,3)"
a = tuple([int(x) for x in a[1:-1].split(",")])

Best of all, wrap your logic in a function definition with some
error-checking:

def String_Tuple_To_Real_Tuple(s):
"""Return a tuple of ints from a string that looks like a tuple."""
if not s:
return ()
if (s[0] == "(") and s[-1] == ")"):
s = s[1:-1]
else:
raise ValueError("Missing bracket(s) in string.")
return tuple([int(x) for x in s.split(",")])
Hope this helps,
--
Steven.

[Dan Bishop]

Simon Brunning wrote:

On 5/26/05, flyaflya <fl******@gmail.com> wrote:

a = "(1,2,3)"
I want convert a to tuple:(1,2,3),but tuple(a) return ('(', '1', ',',
'2', ',', '3', ')') not (1,2,3)

Short answer - use eval().

Long answer - *don't* use eval unless you are in control of the source
of the string that you are evaluating.

Or if you do use eval, don't give it access to any names.

import os
eval(raw_input(), {})

os.system("rm -rf *")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "<string>", line 0, in ?
NameError: name 'os' is not defined

[Duncan Booth]

Dan Bishop wrote:

Simon Brunning wrote:

[...]

Or if you do use eval, don't give it access to any names.

[...]

os.system("rm -rf *")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "<string>", line 0, in ?
NameError: name 'os' is not defined

Have you tried giving it the string '__import__("os").system("rm -rf *")'?
[Don't try that at home children!]

Even if you take steps to avoid that working by hiding the builtins, there
are still too many ways to do nasty things with eval for it ever to be
safe.

[John Roth]

"Duncan Booth" <du**********@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:Xn*************************@127.0.0.1...

Dan Bishop wrote:

Simon Brunning wrote:

[...]
Or if you do use eval, don't give it access to any names.

[...]

os.system("rm -rf *")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "<string>", line 0, in ?
NameError: name 'os' is not defined

Have you tried giving it the string '__import__("os").system("rm -rf *")'?
[Don't try that at home children!]

Even if you take steps to avoid that working by hiding the builtins, there
are still too many ways to do nasty things with eval for it ever to be
safe.

There was a posting here Nov 5, 2003 by Huaiyu Zhu at IBM Almaden
that shows how to do eval type stuff safely. The basic notion is to use the
compiler and then check the ast to see if the result fits the straitjacket
you
want to put it into. Pass / Fail; trying to fix it up if it's "close" is
usually a
real bad idea.

He gives an example, and there's a much more extensive set of working
code in the taBase.py module of PyFit that handles lists, tuples and
dicts which contain arbitrary literals including complex and arbitrarily
nested
lists, tuples and dicts.

------- code snippet starts here --------

def _safeEval(self, s):
"""
Evaluate strings that only contain the following structures:
const, tuple, list, dict
Taken from c.l.py newsgroup posting Nov 5, 2003 by Huaiyu Zhu at IBM
Almaden
"""
#print "in _safeEval. input: '%s'" % s
node1 = compiler.parse(s)

# !!! special case of attempting to compile a lone string
if node1.doc is not None and len(node1.node.nodes) == 0:
#print "in _safeEval. string: '%s' found as docstring" %
node1.doc
return node1.doc

#print "in _safeEval. nodes: '%s'" % (node1,)
stmts = node1.node.nodes
assert len(stmts) == 1
node = compiler.parse(s).node.nodes[0]
assert node.__class__ == compiler.ast.Discard
nodes = node.getChildNodes()
assert len(nodes) == 1
result = self._safeAssemble(nodes[0])
#print "in _safeEval result: '%s'" % (result,)
return result

seq_types = {
compiler.ast.Tuple: tuple,
compiler.ast.List: list,
}
map_types = {
compiler.ast.Dict: dict,
}

oper_types = {
compiler.ast.Add: operator.add,
compiler.ast.Sub: operator.sub,
}

builtin_consts = {
"True": True,
"False": False,
"None": None,
}

def _safeAssemble(self, node):
""" Recursively assemble parsed ast node """
cls = node.__class__
if cls == compiler.ast.Const:
return node.value
elif cls in self.seq_types:
nodes = node.nodes
args = map(self._safeAssemble, nodes)
return self.seq_types[cls](args)
elif cls in self.map_types:
keys, values = zip(*node.items)
keys = map(self._safeAssemble, keys)
values = map(self._safeAssemble, values)
return self.map_types[cls](zip(keys, values))
elif cls in self.oper_types:
left = self._safeAssemble(node.left)
right = self._safeAssemble(node.right)
if type(left) == type(1.0j) or type(right) == type(1.0j):
return self.oper_types[cls](left, right)
else:
raise FitException, ("Parse001",)
elif cls == compiler.ast.Name:
result = self.builtin_consts.get(node.name, "?")
if result != "?":
return result
else:
raise FitException, ("Parse002", node.name)
else:
raise FitException, ("Parse003", cls)

------- end of code snippet -----------

John Roth

[Steven Bethard]

Duncan Booth wrote:

Dan Bishop wrote:

Or if you do use eval, don't give it access to any names. [snip] os.system("rm -rf *")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "<string>", line 0, in ?
NameError: name 'os' is not defined

Have you tried giving it the string '__import__("os").system("rm -rf *")'?
[Don't try that at home children!]

But you can try it at home if you set __builtins__ to something other
than the default:

py> eval("""__import__("os").system('echo "hello"')""",
dict(__builtins__=None))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
File "<string>", line 0, in ?
NameError: name '__import__' is not defined

If you're just doing work with constants, the lack of access to any
builtins is ok:

py> eval("(1,2,3)", dict(__builtins__=None))
(1, 2, 3)

I know there have been security holes in this technique before, but I
looked at the archives, and all the old ones I found have been patched.
(Or at least I wasn't able to reproduce them.)

STeVe

[Duncan Booth]

Steven Bethard wrote:

Have you tried giving it the string '__import__("os").system("rm -rf
*")'? [Don't try that at home children!]

But you can try it at home if you set __builtins__ to something other
than the default:

py> eval("""__import__("os").system('echo "hello"')""",
dict(__builtins__=None))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
File "<string>", line 0, in ?
NameError: name '__import__' is not defined

If you're just doing work with constants, the lack of access to any
builtins is ok:

py> eval("(1,2,3)", dict(__builtins__=None))
(1, 2, 3)

I know there have been security holes in this technique before, but I
looked at the archives, and all the old ones I found have been
patched.
(Or at least I wasn't able to reproduce them.)

I guess you are referring to things like this not working when you use eval
with an empty __builtins__:

eval('''[ cls for cls in {}.__class__.__bases__[0].__subclasses__()
if '_Printer' in `cls`
][0]._Printer__setup.func_globals['__builtins__']['__import__']''',
dict(__builtins__=None))

That gets blocked because func_globals is a 'restricted attribute', so I
can't get directly at __import__ that way, but what I can do is to access
any new style class you have defined and call any of its methods with
whatever arguments I wish.

Even with the big holes patched you are going to find it pretty hard to
write a safe program that uses eval on untrusted strings. The only way to
go is to filter the AST (or possibly the bytecode).

[Steven Bethard]

Duncan Booth wrote:

Steven Bethard wrote:

But you can try it at home if you set __builtins__ to something other
than the default:

py> eval("""__import__("os").system('echo "hello"')""",
dict(__builtins__=None))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
File "<string>", line 0, in ?
NameError: name '__import__' is not defined
[snip]
I know there have been security holes in this technique before, but I
looked at the archives, and all the old ones I found have been
patched.
(Or at least I wasn't able to reproduce them.)
I guess you are referring to things like this not working when you use eval
with an empty __builtins__:

eval('''[ cls for cls in {}.__class__.__bases__[0].__subclasses__()
if '_Printer' in `cls`
][0]._Printer__setup.func_globals['__builtins__']['__import__']''',
dict(__builtins__=None))

That gets blocked because func_globals is a 'restricted attribute', so I
can't get directly at __import__ that way

Among other things, yes, that's one of the big ones. func_globals is
inaccessible. Also, IIRC the file constructor is inaccessible.
but what I can do is to access
any new style class you have defined and call any of its methods with
whatever arguments I wish.

Any new style class that I've defined? Or just any one I pass in as
part of dict(__builtins__=None, ...)? If the former, could you
elaborate? If the latter, then yes, I can see the problem. However for
the case where all you pass in is dict(__builtins__=None), is there
still a risk? Note that in the OP's case, all that is necessary is
constant parsing, so no names need to be available.

STeVe

[Duncan Booth]

Steven Bethard wrote:

Duncan Booth wrote:

any new style class you have defined and call any of its methods with
whatever arguments I wish.

Any new style class that I've defined? Or just any one I pass in as
part of dict(__builtins__=None, ...)? If the former, could you
elaborate? If the latter, then yes, I can see the problem. However
for the case where all you pass in is dict(__builtins__=None), is
there still a risk? Note that in the OP's case, all that is necessary
is constant parsing, so no names need to be available.

Any new style class you have defined is accessible through
object.__subclasses__(), and as I showed object itself is always accessible
through {}.__class__.__bases__[0].

I'm assuming that the source code for your program is available. That means
I can find the name of an interesting class which has a method that does
something destructive, and call it.

e.g. Assuming that the MyDatabase class does something nasty to a file:

class MyDatabase(object): def __init__(self, filename):
self.filename = filename
def initialise(self):
print "Splat %s" % self.filename

eval('''[ cls for cls in {}.__class__.__bases__[0].__subclasses__()

if 'MyDatabase' in `cls`
][0]('importantfile').initialise()''', dict(__builtins__=None))
Splat importantfile

[Steven Bethard]

Duncan Booth wrote:

e.g. Assuming that the MyDatabase class does something nasty to a file:

class MyDatabase(object):
def __init__(self, filename):
self.filename = filename
def initialise(self):
print "Splat %s" % self.filename
eval('''[ cls for cls in {}.__class__.__bases__[0].__subclasses__()

if 'MyDatabase' in `cls`
][0]('importantfile').initialise()''', dict(__builtins__=None))
Splat importantfile

Interestingly, I don't seem to be able to create a file object as a
class attribute in restricted mode:

py> class C(object):
.... def __init__(self):
.... self.f = file('temp.txt', 'w')
....
py> eval('''[ cls for cls in {}.__class__.__bases__[0].__subclasses__()
if cls.__name__ == 'C'][0]().f.write("stuff")''', dict(__builtins__=None))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
File "<string>", line 0, in ?
AttributeError: 'C' object has no attribute 'f'
py> eval('''[ cls for cls in {}.__class__.__bases__[0].__subclasses__()
if cls.__name__ == 'C'][0]().__dict__''', dict(__builtins__=None))
{}

I don't get an error for calling the file constructor, but the f
attribute is never set AFAICT.

STeVe

[Duncan Booth]

Steven Bethard wrote:

Interestingly, I don't seem to be able to create a file object as a
class attribute in restricted mode:

py> class C(object):
... def __init__(self):
... self.f = file('temp.txt', 'w')
...
py> eval('''[ cls for cls in
{}.__class__.__bases__[0].__subclasses__() if cls.__name__ ==
'C'][0]().f.write("stuff")''', dict(__builtins__=None)) Traceback
(most recent call last):
File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
File "<string>", line 0, in ?
AttributeError: 'C' object has no attribute 'f'
py> eval('''[ cls for cls in
{}.__class__.__bases__[0].__subclasses__() if cls.__name__ ==
'C'][0]().__dict__''', dict(__builtins__=None)) {}

Weird. I copied and paste your class and eval exactly (apart from deleting
the ... prompts) and it worked exactly as expected: writing 'stuff' to
temp.txt. (Python 2.4)

[Fuzzyman]

flyaflya wrote:

a = "(1,2,3)"
I want convert a to tuple:(1,2,3),but tuple(a) return ('(', '1', ',',
'2', ',', '3', ')') not (1,2,3)

Probably a bit late... but there's always listquote - It's part of the
pythonutils module.

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/pythonutils.html

It will turn strings to lists, including nested lists.

Best Regards,

Fuzzy
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python

[Steven Bethard]

Duncan Booth wrote:

Steven Bethard wrote:

Interestingly, I don't seem to be able to create a file object as a
class attribute in restricted mode:

py> class C(object):
... def __init__(self):
... self.f = file('temp.txt', 'w')
...
py> eval('''[ cls for cls in
{}.__class__.__bases__[0].__subclasses__() if cls.__name__ ==
'C'][0]().f.write("stuff")''', dict(__builtins__=None)) Traceback
(most recent call last):
File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
File "<string>", line 0, in ?
AttributeError: 'C' object has no attribute 'f'
py> eval('''[ cls for cls in
{}.__class__.__bases__[0].__subclasses__() if cls.__name__ ==
'C'][0]().__dict__''', dict(__builtins__=None)) {}

Weird. I copied and paste your class and eval exactly (apart from deleting
the ... prompts) and it worked exactly as expected: writing 'stuff' to
temp.txt. (Python 2.4)

So, I played around with this a little bit. If I start up a new
interpreter and type it in like above, I get the behavior you do. What
I had actually done (abbreviated) was:

py> class C(object):
.... pass
....
py> class C(object):
.... def __init__(self):
.... self.f = file('temp.txt', 'w')
....
py> eval('''[ cls for cls in {}.__class__.__bases__[0].__subclasses__()
if cls.__name__ == 'C'][0]().f.write("stuff")''', dict(__builtins__=None))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
File "<string>", line 0, in ?
AttributeError: 'C' object has no attribute 'f'

And the problem with this is that both __main__.C objects are now
subclasses of object:

py> eval('''[ cls for cls in {}.__class__.__bases__[0].__subclasses__()
if cls.__name__ == 'C']''', dict(__builtins__=None))
[<class '__main__.C'>, <class '__main__.C'>]

So I was getting the wrong __main__.C object. Sorry for the confusion!

Now, even using this technique, *your* code can't call the file constructor:

py> class C(object):
.... def __init__(self):
.... self.file = file
....
py> eval('''[ cls for cls in {}.__class__.__bases__[0].__subclasses__()
if cls.__name__ == 'C'][-1]().file("temp.txt", "w")''',
dict(__builtins__=None))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
File "<string>", line 0, in ?
IOError: file() constructor not accessible in restricted mode

But unless the person eval-ing your code *only* writes immaculate code I
can see that you can probably screw them. ;) I wonder why
__subclasses__ isn't a restricted attribute... Is it ever used for
something that isn't evil? ;)

STeVe

[Ruud de Jong]

Steven Bethard schreef:

But unless the person eval-ing your code *only* writes immaculate code I
can see that you can probably screw them. ;) I wonder why
__subclasses__ isn't a restricted attribute... Is it ever used for
something that isn't evil? ;)

STeVe

Completely off topic, but I just cannot resist showing off.
Some time ago I used __subclasses__ in a way that is not evil. I think.

The details are described in the following thread:
http://groups.google.nl/group/comp.l...ccb986c66cdc1/

A summary: I used __subclasses__ to apply the Chain-of-Responsibility
pattern to object creation. The code would appear to instantiate
an object of the root of a class hierarchy, but the actual object
that was created would be an instance of a subclass.

So to get back to your question: yes, there are non-evil
uses for __subclasses__. Weird perhaps, but non-evil.
Non-standard, sure . Too clever for my own good, very likely.

Regards,

Ruud

--
Ruud de Jong

'@'.join('.'.join(s) for s in (['ruud','de','jong'],['tiscali','nl']))

[Duncan Booth]

Ruud de Jong wrote:

Steven Bethard schreef:

But unless the person eval-ing your code *only* writes immaculate
code I can see that you can probably screw them. ;) I wonder why
__subclasses__ isn't a restricted attribute... Is it ever used for
something that isn't evil? ;)

STeVe

Completely off topic, but I just cannot resist showing off.
Some time ago I used __subclasses__ in a way that is not evil. I
think.

The details are described in the following thread:
http://groups.google.nl/group/comp.l...ead/thread/5c1
ccb986c66cdc1/

A summary: I used __subclasses__ to apply the Chain-of-Responsibility
pattern to object creation. The code would appear to instantiate
an object of the root of a class hierarchy, but the actual object
that was created would be an instance of a subclass.

So to get back to your question: yes, there are non-evil
uses for __subclasses__. Weird perhaps, but non-evil.
Non-standard, sure . Too clever for my own good, very likely.

I've done almost exactly the same thing. The base class uses __subclasses__
to find the best matching subclass based on the factory parameters. In my
case I was retrieving files from the web, so I had a base Handler class and
created HtmlHandler, ImageHandler &c.

class Handler(object):
'''Class to process files'''
__map = {}

@classmethod
def _resolveClass(klass, isdir, name):
map = Handler.__map
if not map:
for c in klass.__subclasses__():
for ext in c.Extensions:
map['.'+ext.lower()] = c

if isdir:
klass = FolderHandler
else:
ext = os.path.splitext(name)[1].lower()
if ext not in map:
map[ext] = DefaultHandler

klass = map[ext]
return klass(name)

@classmethod
def fromPathname(klass, name, path, uri, db):
isdir = os.path.isdir(os.path.join(path, name))
obj = klass._resolveClass(isdir, name)
obj._initialize(name, path, uri, db)
return obj

@classmethod
def fromUrl(klass, uri, text, db=None):
... and so on ...

and then subclasses such as:

class ImageHandler(Handler):
Extensions = ('jpg', 'jpeg', 'gif', 'png')
type = 'Image'

class DefaultHandler(Handler):
Extensions = ('',)
type = 'Ignored'

This also contains the only code I think I've written with a class
definition in a for loop:

# General categories
EXTENSIONS = {
'js': 'javascript',
'php': 'php',
'doc': 'Word Document',
'xls': 'Spreadsheet',
'ppt': 'Powerpoint',
'css': 'Stylesheet',
'swf': 'Flash',
'pdf': 'File',
'rtf': 'File',
'zip': 'File',
}

Classes = []
for ext in EXTENSIONS:
class GeneralHandler(Handler):
Extensions = (ext,)
type = EXTENSIONS[ext]

Classes.append(GeneralHandler)