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author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2022-10-02 01:24:55 (GMT) |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-10-02 01:24:55 (GMT) |
commit | a4fbb949659b86b0925b20a9ef6bc2877f397252 (patch) | |
tree | 0cd23d85e8ea2a1d02edc72b7e364c758f1c945a /Lib/ast.py | |
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gh-95588: Drop the safety claim from `ast.literal_eval` docs. (GH-95919)
It was never really safe and this claim conflicts directly with the big warning in the docs about it being able to crash the interpreter.
(cherry picked from commit 8baef8ae367041a5cfefb40b19c7b87e9bcb56a2)
Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>
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@@ -53,10 +53,12 @@ def parse(source, filename='<unknown>', mode='exec', *, def literal_eval(node_or_string): """ - Safely evaluate an expression node or a string containing a Python + Evaluate an expression node or a string containing only a Python expression. The string or node provided may only consist of the following Python literal structures: strings, bytes, numbers, tuples, lists, dicts, sets, booleans, and None. + + Caution: A complex expression can overflow the C stack and cause a crash. """ if isinstance(node_or_string, str): node_or_string = parse(node_or_string.lstrip(" \t"), mode='eval') |