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| author | Michael Fenn <michaelfenn87@gmail.com> | 2015-03-19 15:10:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Michael Fenn <michaelfenn87@gmail.com> | 2015-03-19 15:10:44 -0400 |
| commit | 16d3e04cb80a975eef0e0ad6f0f6dc4800860d3c (patch) | |
| tree | 3ca0eee8c3ebb3c47e96acf59171fe3784cf2752 /doc | |
| parent | c8863b9a2dadacdacf433cbb818735c32e8f83a8 (diff) | |
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compat: use eval instead of ast.literal_eval on python 2.4
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diff --git a/doc/development/compat.txt b/doc/development/compat.txt index 8700c46d3..5ac08ea68 100644 --- a/doc/development/compat.txt +++ b/doc/development/compat.txt @@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ below, since some of these implementations may be feature-incomplete. +----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ | MutableMapping | :class:`UserDict.DictMixin` | :class:`collections.MutableMapping` (2.6+) | +----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ +| literal_eval | :func:`ast.literal_eval` | :func:`eval` | ++----------------+--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ walk_packages ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -171,6 +173,14 @@ mind. :class:`collections.MutableMapping` is available in Python 2.6+, and will be used if available. +literal_eval +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +:func:`ast.literal_eval` is a safe version of :func:`eval` that will only +allow delaration of literal strings, ints, list, dicts, etc. This was +introduced in Python 2.6, and as such Python 2.4 uses the plain-old +:func:`eval`. + Other Symbols ------------- |