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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-07-13 06:38:10 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-07-13 06:38:10 (GMT)
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Add bytes in literal_eval doc.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/ast.rst b/Doc/library/ast.rst
index 43c9add..5e2336f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ast.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ast.rst
@@ -119,14 +119,14 @@ and classes for traversing abstract syntax trees:
Safely evaluate an expression node or a string containing a Python
expression. The string or node provided may only consist of the following
- Python literal structures: strings, numbers, tuples, lists, dicts, sets,
- booleans, and ``None``.
+ Python literal structures: strings, bytes, numbers, tuples, lists, dicts,
+ sets, booleans, and ``None``.
This can be used for safely evaluating strings containing Python expressions
from untrusted sources without the need to parse the values oneself.
.. versionchanged:: 3.2
- Now allows set literals.
+ Now allows bytes and set literals.
.. function:: get_docstring(node, clean=True)