compat: use eval instead of ast.literal_eval on python 2.4

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/lib/Bcfg2/Compat.py b/src/lib/Bcfg2/Compat.py
index b8a75a0c5..1c2420ccf 100644
--- a/src/lib/Bcfg2/Compat.py
+++ b/src/lib/Bcfg2/Compat.py
@@ -286,3 +286,9 @@ except NameError:
     def cmp(a, b):
         """ Py3k implementation of cmp() """
         return (a > b) - (a < b)
+
+# ast was introduced in python 2.6
+try:
+    from ast import literal_eval
+except ImportError:
+    literal_eval = eval
diff --git a/src/lib/Bcfg2/Options.py b/src/lib/Bcfg2/Options.py
index fdc34eb95..5653b29e5 100644
--- a/src/lib/Bcfg2/Options.py
+++ b/src/lib/Bcfg2/Options.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 """Option parsing library for utilities."""
 
-import ast
 import copy
 import getopt
 import grp
@@ -13,6 +12,7 @@ import sys
 
 import Bcfg2.Client.Tools
 from Bcfg2.Compat import ConfigParser
+from Bcfg2.Compat import literal_eval
 from Bcfg2.version import __version__
 
 
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ def colon_split(c_string):
 def dict_split(c_string):
     """ literally evaluate the option in order to allow for arbitrarily nested
     dictionaries """
-    return ast.literal_eval(c_string)
+    return literal_eval(c_string)
 
 
 def get_bool(val):