title: remove double quotes from first element of the list
body: <p>I want to remove double quotes from this list:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; a
  ["6/1, 0, 0, ['79', '80', '81', '82']"]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried converting first element of list to list which is a string but dint work:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; a[0]
  "6/1, 0, 0, ['79', '80', '81', '82']"
  
  &gt;&gt;&gt; list(a[0])
  ['6', '/', '1', ',', ' ', '0', ',', ' ', '0', ',', ' ', '[', "'", '7', '9', "'", ',', ' ', "'", '8', '0', "'", ',', ' ', "'", '8', '1', "'", ',', ' ', "'", '8', '2', "'", ']']
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Expected output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; a
  [6/1, 0, 0, ['79', '80', '81', '82']]
                      or
  &gt;&gt;&gt; a
  ['6/1', '0', '0', ['79', '80', '81', '82']]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can someone please help me resolving this issue?</p>