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Subject: Re: Storing dictionary locations as a string and using eval - alternatives?
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Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com> writes:
> ...
I did not read your message body - just your "subject".

Instead of (the potentially insecure) "eval", I use "json.loads"
(combined with a "json.dumps" to get the "json" representation).
See the "json" module documentation.