How to parse lists in a string?

Question

Python

Good afternoon. I need to parse a string containing lists into lists. Here is an example line content:

[
[1, "Иван Иванович Иванов", "Иванов И.И."],
 [2, "Макар Макарович Макаров", "Макароы М.М."]
]

Of course, this can be done with regular expressions, but perhaps there are other, more humane ways. Please let me know if there are other ways to do this?

Answer 1

If I understand correctly, here is a more humane way:

import ast

data = '''[
  [1, "Иван Иванович Иванов", "Иванов И.И."],
  [2, "Макар Макарович Макаров", "Макароы М.М."]
 ]'''
res = ast.literal_eval(data)
# 
type(res)
# <class 'list'>