Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>YAML looks to me to be completely insane, even compared to Python
>lists. I think it would be great if the Python library exposed an
>interface for parsing constant list and dict expressions, e.g.:
> [1, 2, 'Joe Smith', 8237972883334L, # comment
> {'Favorite fruits': ['apple', 'banana', 'pear']}, # another comment
> 'xyzzy', [3, 5, [3.14159, 2.71828, []]]]
> [ ... ]
>Note that all the values in the above have to be constant literals.
>Don't suggest using eval. That would be a huge security hole.
I'm probably not thinking deviously enough here, but how are you
going to exploit an eval() which has very tightly controlled
globals and locals (eg. eval(x, {"__builtins__": None}, {}) ?
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