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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:22:23 -0600
Subject: Re: Supply condition in function call
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Joel Goldstick
<joel.goldstick@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, now I see.  Do you know about this:
> https://docs.python.org/2/library/ast.html#ast.literal_eval

As the name suggests, that only evals literals. It won't work for
complex expressions like "i + j > 4"