Is there a simple/safe expression evaluator I can use in a python program. I just want to pass along a string in the form "1 + 44 / 3" or perhaps "1 + (-4.3*5)" and get a numeric result.
I can do this with eval() but I really don't want to subject my users to the problems with that method.
In this use I don't need python to worry about complex numbers, variables or anything else. Just do the math on a set of values. Would eval() with some restricted list of permitted operators do the trick?
I'm feeling too lazy to write/debug my own parser for this :) Thanks, Bob. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
