In Python how to convert a string with special characters to a tuple

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would really appreciate any help on this one!

I have a string:

"<Cell 'test'.B45>"

I need to convert this to a tuple with only one object in it, so that looks like this:

((<Cell 'test'.B45>))

So to do this I have tried:

string = "<Cell 'test'.B45>"
tuple = eval(string)

this returns:

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I think that this is because of the special values ("<",">", "’") in the string (removing them seems to work but I need them here)

Am I right here? and is there a way round this?
note I have also tried using the method:

tuple = ast.literal_eval(string)

with the same result.

Asked By: 11l

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Answer 1

Is that what you’re saying?


string = "<Cell 'test'.B45>"
list_of_str = list()
list_of_str.append(string)
tuple_info = tuple(list_of_str)
print(tuple_info)


# ("<Cell 'test'.B45>",)

Answered By: chrisfang

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