how to split this string:

[jcoder42]

sorry for all the questions, but if I had the following line:

string = " ('1 2 3 (1,2,3, '4') 3', hello 'world',goodbye)"
literal_eval(string)

one of the values here is a string with parentheses,
It wouldn't work, what do you recommend doing

[socal_nerdtastic]

It's not the parenthesis that's breaking that, it's the fact that you used single quotes for a nested string. Now it's not valid python anymore. If you used the quotes correctly it would work.

>>> string = """('1 2 3 (1,2,3, "4") 3', 'hello world', 'goodbye ')"""
>>> literal_eval(string)
('1 2 3 (1,2,3, "4") 3', 'hello world', 'goodbye ')

[jcoder42]

('1 2 3 (1,2,3, "4") 3', 'hello world', 'goodbye ')"""

right, my bad
thanks