[New-bugs-announce] [issue39158] ast.literal_eval() doesn't support empty sets

[Raymond Hettinger]

New submission from Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com>:

We already support sets but not empty sets.  After the PR, this now works:

    >>> from ast import literal_eval
    >>> literal_eval('set()')
    set()

If we wanted, it would be a simple matter to extend it frozensets:

    >>> literal_eval('frozenset({10, 20, 30})')
    frozenset({10, 20, 30})

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 359007
nosy: rhettinger
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: ast.literal_eval() doesn't support empty sets
versions: Python 3.9

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