I want to write a list of lists to csv file with one script and simply read it again into a list of lists with the same format with another script. Problem is when I read the csv file back, there is apostrophes around each list when printing the entire line, like this:

a = [  [ [1,2,3], [4,5,6], [7,8,9] ],
       [ [1,2,3], [4,5,6], [7,8,9] ],
       [ [1,2,3], [4,5,6], [7,8,9] ],
       [ [1,2,3], [4,5,6], [7,8,9] ],
       [ [1,2,3], [4,5,6], [7,8,9] ] ]

path = "enter path here"

print("")
print(a)
print("")

with open(path, 'w', newline='') as f:
    writer = csv.writer(f)
    writer.writerows(a)

with open(path, 'r') as csv_file:
    csv_reader = csv.reader(csv_file)
    rows = list(csv_reader)

    print(rows)

Printing list a looks like this as before writing expected:

[[[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]], [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]], [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]], [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]], [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]]]

But reading list rows back prints this:

[['[1, 2, 3]', '[4, 5, 6]', '[7, 8, 9]'], ['[1, 2, 3]', '[4, 5, 6]', '[7, 8, 9]'], ['[1, 2, 3]', '[4, 5, 6]', '[7, 8, 9]'], ['[1, 2, 3]', '[4, 5, 6]', '[7, 8, 9]'], ['[1, 2, 3]', '[4, 5, 6]', '[7, 8, 9]']]

But if I print this rows[0], there are no apostrophes:

[1, 2, 3]

I think this is caused by the way the list is written to csv as the apostrophes indicate that each inner list element is written to the csv file as a string. How can I get around this so I don’t read back the apostrophes? Or is there a simple way I can remove them?