On Aug 28, 4:51 pm, Fett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am creating a program that requires some data that must be kept up > to date. What I plan is to put this data up on a web-site then have > the program periodically pull the data off the web-site. > > My problem is that when I pull the data (currently stored as a > dictionary on the site) off the site, it is a string, I can use eval() > to make that string into a dictionary, and everything is great. > However, this means that I am using eval() on some string on a web- > site, which seems pretty un-safe.
May I suggest PyYAML? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list