Spilt string into its arguments

Hi All,

I am creating objects using eval.

For instance:

class MyClass():
def __init__(self,stringField,integerField,sequenceField):
self.stringField = stringField
self.integerField = integerField
self.sequenceField = sequenceField

theString = 'MyClass("foo",32,["foo","bar"])'

theMyClass = eval(stripPackage(theEventString))

This works fine.

I am in the situation where i would like to modify some of the parameters. Is there a way to spit the parameter string i.e. ("foo",32,["foo","bar"]) into an array or list that contains the parameters.

So that the string ("foo",32,["foo","bar"]) would be split into an array of three strings the first being "foo" second being 32 and third being ["foo","bar"].

I would appreciate any help on this as I am completelly stuck.

Sounds like a badly designed system to me. The two key indicators are:

1) Using eval() full stop.

2) Getting to a stage where you need to manually parse a string containing Python code into running Python so you can modify it before converting it back to a string so you can feed it into the function that parses strings containing Python code into running Python.

Whatever you're doing (it's not clear), take a couple of steps back and rethink, I say.