gh-100305: Deemphasize that ast.literal_eval is safe in eval documentation#100326
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| See :func:`ast.literal_eval` for a function that can safely evaluate strings | ||
| with expressions containing only literals. | ||
| .. versionchanged:: 3.11 |
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I'm not so sure about saying 'version changed', as it seems to imply that only 3.11 has the change, but 3.10 also has it as it was backported (see PR). I'd say it's okay to just keep the original format and adjust the wording.
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ast.literal_eval is still referred to as safe by the documentation for evalast.literal_eval is safe in eval documentation
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Thanks @ramvikrams for the PR, and @gpshead for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.13, 3.14. |
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…` documentation (pythonGH-100326) (cherry picked from commit b3b0cef0c2aacdc616fa48674552ab1e34553835) Co-authored-by: Ram Vikram Singh <ramvikrams243@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Éric <merwok@netwok.org>
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…` documentation (pythonGH-100326) (cherry picked from commit b3b0cef0c2aacdc616fa48674552ab1e34553835) Co-authored-by: Ram Vikram Singh <ramvikrams243@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Éric <merwok@netwok.org>
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gh-100305: Changed the doc referencing to
literal_evalin eval as it was misleading asliteral_evalwas said safe