Joel Hedlund wrote: > Matt Nordhoff wrote: >>>>> '\x5f' >> '_' >>>>> getattr(42, '\x5f\x5fclass\x5f\x5f') # __class__ >> <type 'int'> >> >> Is that enough to show you the error of your ways? > > No, because > > >>> print '_' in '\x5f\x5fclass\x5f\x5f' > True
But what you're planning to do seems more like >>> def is_it_safe(source): ... return "_" not in source ... >>> source = "getattr(42, '\\x5f\\x5fclass\\x5f\\x5f')" >>> if is_it_safe(source): ... print eval(source) ... <type 'int'> Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
