string issue or questions about intern

[Paul Prescod]

Andrew Kuchling wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> If you need full Python expressions, there seems no way around using
> eval().  But if you simply need string escapes, it's probably worth
> writing a parser.  (Does such a parser already exist somewhere in the
> standard library?  Anyone know?)

In general, wouldn't it be nice if there was a parser for all Python
literal syntaxes? Sometimes its really convenient to keep your data in a
format like this:

{"a":"b"}

but I cringe to load the file and then eval it for security reasons.

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