Re: Eval (was Re: Question about the use of python as a scripting language)

2006-08-10 Thread Brendon Towle
Oops -- I missed the subject line on my last post.On 10 Aug 2006, at 9:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:    Brendon Seems that parsing negative numbers is outside of the scope of    Brendon this routine. Here's the source (which is Frederik's source    Brendon with one minor renaming; I take no

Re: Eval (was Re: Question about the use of python as a scripting language)

2006-08-10 Thread skip
Brendon A shortcut occurs to me; maybe someone can tell me what's wrong Brendon with my reasoning here. It seems that any string that is unsafe Brendon to pass to eval() must involve a function call, and thus must Brendon contain an opening paren. Given that I know that the data I

Re: Eval (was Re: Question about the use of python as a scripting language)

2006-08-10 Thread Max Erickson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brendon A shortcut occurs to me; maybe someone can tell me what's wrong Brendon with my reasoning here. It seems that any string that is unsafe Brendon to pass to eval() must involve a function call, and thus must Brendon contain an opening

Re: Eval (was Re: Question about the use of python as a scripting language)

2006-08-10 Thread Brendon Towle
On 10 Aug 2006, at 10:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:    Brendon A shortcut occurs to me; maybe someone can tell me what's wrong    Brendon with my reasoning here. It seems that any string that is unsafe    Brendon to pass to eval() must involve a function call, and thus must    Brendon contain an

Re: Eval (was Re: Question about the use of python as a scripting language)

2006-08-10 Thread skip
Brendon Am I missing a third option? I can't think of one, but I'm not very smart. ;-) Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list