On Sep 8, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Mikie wrote:

> Here is the function
> -------------------------------
> def BasicStats1a(exp1):
>     v = exp1
>     v1 = eval(v);Count_=len(v1)
>     sort_v1=sorted(v1)
>     M1 =stats.mode(v1); v3=eval(str(M1[0])); v4=eval(str(M1[1]))
>     R1 = stats.mean(v1);R2 = stats.median(v1)
>     R3 = stats.std(v1)
>     var_=R3**2
>     return R1,R2,R3,Count_,sort_v1,var_,v3,v4
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> You can see the eval's.  Is there a security problem with sage_eval?

Yes.

> The string comes from a form.

You should look up string processing in Python, I think that would  
help a lot in much of what you're trying to do here. For example,

sage: s = "1,2,3,4,100"
sage: [ZZ(x) for x in s.split(',')]
[1, 2, 3, 4, 100]

This is fast, safe, and more clear than the above.

- Robert


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