reading raw variables from file

Hi,
I have a file that might contain literal python variable statements at every line. For example the file info.dat looks like this:
users = ["Bob", "Jane"]
status = {1:"ok",2:users[0]}
the problem is I want to read this file and load whatever variables written in it as normal python variable statements so that when i read the file, my users var will be ["Bob","Jane"] and my status var will be {1:"ok",2:users[0]} . Is there an easy way of doing this instead of parsing the files and checking said types?
Thanks
Cheers
Astan
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