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Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 02:23:19 +1000
Subject: Re: Question about ast.literal_eval
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 2:12 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Personally, I would strongly suggest writing your own mini-
> evaluator that walks the list and evaluates it by hand. It isn't as
> convenient as just calling eval, but *definitely* safer.

Probably faster, too, for what it's worth - eval is pretty expensive.

ChrisA