jez added the comment:
I take the point about breaking backward compatibility. The problem, then, is
in the `ast` documentation, and may not be confined to Python 2.7
The `literal_eval` doc <https://docs.python.org/2/library/ast.html#ast-helpers>
states no more than that the fu
New submission from Jez Hill :
Following `from __future__ import unicode_literals` the expression `eval("
'foo' ")` will return a `unicode` instance. However, using the same input,
`ast.literal_eval(" 'foo' ")` will return a `str` instance. Th
