On Oct 9, 1:44 pm, Jason Scheirer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 9, 9:01 am, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Lie Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > in python 2.6, ast.literal_eval may be used to replace eval() for > > > literals. > > > What happens on literal_eval('[1]*999999999') ? > > The documentation clearly states that it will fail to evaluate and > raise a ValueError because there is an operation in the statement. 5*5 > is NOT the literal 25, it is the equivalent to operator.mul(5, 5), and > the same is true to []*x
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