Message 79736 - Python tracker

Message79736

Author	aronacher
Recipients	aronacher, benjamin.peterson, georg.brandl, mark.dickinson
Date	2009-01-13.11:45:17
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Indeed, it accepts parentheses in 2.6 now, but not in 2.5 or earlier. Why not the other way round? Somewhere there has to be a limit. And if you write down complex numbers you usually have the imaginary part after the real part. But let's try no to make this a bikeshed discussion. If you say that literal_eval can safely evaluate the repr() of builtins (with the notable exception of reprs that eval can't evaluate either [like nan, inf etc.]) and probably a bit more it should be fine :)

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Indeed, it accepts parentheses in 2.6 now, but not in 2.5 or earlier.

Why not the other way round?  Somewhere there has to be a limit.  And if
you write down complex numbers you usually have the imaginary part after
the real part.

But let's try no to make this a bikeshed discussion.  If you say that
literal_eval can safely evaluate the repr() of builtins (with the
notable exception of reprs that eval can't evaluate either [like nan,
inf etc.]) and probably a bit more it should be fine :)

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