On 2008-06-12, Hans Nowak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> bvdp wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
> This solution may be overly simply (especially compared to the
> AST-based solution suggested earlier), but... if all you need
> is numbers and operators, *maybe* you can get away with
> stripping all letters from the input string (and possibly the
> underscore), and then evaluating it:
It won't work for numbers expressed in scientific notation
(e.g. 1.23e-3).
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