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Pythonic way to convert the string "None" to a proper None

I could create an if statement, bet there might be a better way.

Solution

  • You could use ast.literal_eval:

    In [6]: import ast

In [7]: ast.literal_eval('None') is None
Out[7]: True

    However, an if-statement or ternary expression would be faster if all you need is to convert 'None' to None:

    x = None if x == 'None' else x