one-element tuples

Grant Edwards invalid at invalid.invalid
Mon Apr 11 10:12:41 EDT 2016


On 2016-04-11, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
> BartC <bc at freeuk.com>:
>
>> Of course this doesn't help you parsing typical input which uses
>> commas as separators, not terminators!
>
> That's a red herring. You mustn't parse with eval(). You shouldn't event
> think of parsing non-Python data with eval().

And you problably shouldn't think of parsing Python data with eval()
either -- but for different reasons: It's very difficult to use eval()
safely.

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