[issue41887] ast.literal_eval does not accept strings with leading whitespaces

[Pablo Galindo Salgado]

Pablo Galindo Salgado <pablogsal at gmail.com> added the comment:

> I dunno, but it's been doing this since 1992, so I think it would be fragile to change. The best thing therefore is to make ast.literal_eval() match it exactly.

+1 We had considerable finicky behaviour in the parser related to new lines and whitespace so I would recommend to strive for stability.

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