> If you (the programmer) want a function that asks the user to enter a > literal at the input prompt, you'll have to write a post-processing for > it, which looks for prefixes, for quotes, for backslashes, etc., and > encodes the result. There very well may be such a decoder in the Python > library, but input does nothing of the kind.
As it says at the end of eval() (which you definitely don't want to use here due to side effects): See ast.literal_eval() for a function that can safely evaluate strings with expressions containing only literals. DC
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