Convert a long string of coordinates into a list

Question

I have a long string of coordinates divided by commas.

['22.98795, 74.5936', '55.26964, 124.43686', '39.34479, 124.53541']

What is the easiest way to convert this string into a list of coordinates like the one below?

[(22.98795, 74.5936), (55.26964, 124.43686), (39.34479, 124.53541)]

I hope there is an easier solution than this

coords = "['22.98795, 74.5936', '55.26964, 124.43686', '39.34479, 124.53541']"
x = coords.split("', '")
x[0] = x[0][2:]
x[-1] = x[-1][:-2]

Answer 1

>>> from ast import literal_eval
>>> coords = "['22.98795, 74.5936', '55.26964, 124.43686', '39.34479, 124.53541']"
>>> l = literal_eval(coords)
>>> l
['22.98795, 74.5936', '55.26964, 124.43686', '39.34479, 124.53541']
>>> [tuple(map(float, i.split(','))) for i in l]
[(22.98795, 74.5936), (55.26964, 124.43686), (39.34479, 124.53541)]

As a one-liner:

coords = [tuple(map(float, i.split(','))) for i in literal_eval(coords)]

Or, since 22.98795, 74.5936 happens to be a valid literal for a tuple, use literal_eval for it again:

coords = list(map(literal_eval, literal_eval(coords)))