now imagine we want to read that list of movies back into our program, such that we end up with a variable movie list that contains the same list of tuples we had originally. to do this, we'll need a new method: ast.literal eval(). ast.literal eval() does a lot of fancy things, but for right now, all you need to know is this: if you put a string that contains something that looks like a tuple into ast.literal eval(), then it will convert it to a tuple. for example, this code: