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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-07-11 09:41:21 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-07-11 09:41:21 (GMT) |
| commit | 492f3fc272a3b3e941f0911a1ef722065c58452e (patch) | |
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| parent | e40ee509e35edd7dcab4009c4a65efc626527bb8 (diff) | |
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Allow set literals in literal_eval().
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diff --git a/Doc/library/ast.rst b/Doc/library/ast.rst index 9bf374f..43c9add 100644 --- a/Doc/library/ast.rst +++ b/Doc/library/ast.rst @@ -119,12 +119,15 @@ 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, booleans, - and ``None``. + Python literal structures: strings, 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. + .. function:: get_docstring(node, clean=True) |