How to do a Lispy-esque read?

[zeta.convex]

Suppose I want to read an object from some stream. How do I do it?

For example, if the input stream contained the text:
[1, # python should ignore this comment
2]

and I do a "read" on it, I should obtain the result
[1, 2]

 

[Benjamin Kaplan]

There is no "read in a stream until it's a valid literal" function as
far as I know, but ast.literal_eval will turn your string into an
object.

 

[Arnaud Delobelle]

Suppose I want to read an object from some stream. How do I do it?

For example, if the input stream contained the text:
[1, # python should ignore this comment
2]

and I do a "read" on it, I should obtain the result
[1, 2]

You might be interested in code.compile_command()
(http://docs.python.org/2/library/code.html)