how to determine an 'open' string?
Skip Montanaro
skip at pobox.com
Thu May 16 16:04:36 EDT 2002
>> How about just trying to eval() the string? Assuming it begins with
>> a quotation mark or apostrophe it should be safe to call eval().
Bernhard> If you mean the builtin eval without any form of restricted
Bernhard> execution, you're not safe.
Whoops! Thanks. Them dang paren-less tuples!
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