Rolling a Container Into a String

[Terry Reedy]

"Kamilche" <klachemin at home.com> wrote in message
news:889cbba0.0406241742.51a2980b at posting.google.com...
> I want to convert a dict into string form, then back again. After
> discovering that eval is insecure,

With arbitrary code from an arbitrary source, yes.
If you *know* that you are eval-ing your own safe strings, then no problem.

>I wrote some code to roll a Python
> object, dict, tuple, or list into a string.

repr(object) already does that for you.  Why duplicate the work?

You only need custom a eval function, which might check that string is safe
(no function calls, no list comps) and then eval, or which might do parsing
and construction itself.

Terry J. Reedy