[issue41887] ast.literal_eval does not accept strings with leading whitespaces

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> added the comment:

[Terry]
> But why should not parsing remove indents for 'eval' mode?

I dunno, but it's been doing this since 1992, so I think it would be fragile to change. The best thing therefore is to make ast.literal_eval() match it exactly.

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