On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 10:33 AM Wes Turner <wes.tur...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there already a way to load data and not code *with pickle*?
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html
>

I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but there is:
 ast.literal_eval()

which I *think* is safe.

NOTE: I've wanted for ages to make a "PYSON" format / module for when JSON
is not quite enough. e.g. distinction between lists and tuples, dict keys
that aren't strings ....

-CHB






> On Sat, Jul 11, 2020, 11:01 AM Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The current practice, by overriding find_class, is limited to overriding
>> what globals get loaded. This makes it impossible to distinguish globals
>> that will be used as data from globals that will be called as constructors,
>> along with similar concerns with object attributes [especially methods]
>> obtained by loading builtins.getattr as global.
>>
>> I would suggest also exposing for overrides the points where a callable
>> loaded from the pickle is called - on the pure-python _Unpickler these are
>> _instantiate, load_newobj, load_newobj_ex, and load_reduce, though it might
>> be worthwhile to make a single method that can be overridden and use it at
>> the points where each of these call a loaded object.
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