title: How to conveniently convert this string as a list?
body: <pre><code>s = '[a,b,c]'
  </code></pre>
  <p>This is a string, how can I easily convert it to a list into python? I guess there is an easy way to do it, but my way is ugly.</p>
  <pre><code>s = s[1:-1]
  s = s.split(',')
  </code></pre>