Safe eval, or how to get list from string

[Joseph Garvin]

bwooster47 at gmail.com wrote:

>>http://twistedmatrix.com/users/moshez/unrepr.py
>>http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/364469
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>Thanks, this helps - but I was looking at using no additional modules,
>or using something that came bundled in with python 2.3
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>I just discovered mx.Tools.NewBuiltins
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>It has something called "reval" looks that would fit my needs
>perfectly.
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>Details:
>http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/4550/fid/538
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If I remember correctly reval and it's brothers were deemed insecure,
are no longer developed, and are present only for sake of backwards
compatibility. See the global module index entry on it.