from ast import literal_eval

mstr = "['1838', '13735', '8285', '35386']"
mstr = literal_eval(mstr)
print(type(mstr))
print(mstr)
C:\python3\python.exe D:/test.py
<class 'list'>
['1838', '13735', '8285', '35386']

Process finished with exit code 0
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