On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 8:45 AM Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > > On 5/09/20 10:15 am, Chris Angelico wrote: > > Remember that if this matters to you, you can "from math import inf". > > But you still need to use full eval on your repr, which could > be a serious security problem in some contexts. If it were a > built-in constant, ast.literal_eval could be used instead. >
Perhaps the real solution is for literal_eval to be given a specific set of names that it's allowed to reference. Most things don't have to be keywords - it's normally fine for them to be builtins. (Or, in many cases, importables.) If you make "inf" a keyword, then even the Python standard library is broken. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/ZKCQV452ICTQNMG7TLTRHDYRWL2UHA4C/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
