On 2013-01-05, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4 January 2013 15:53, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: >> On 2013-01-04, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >>> On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 23:25:51 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> >>> * But frankly, you should avoid eval, and write your own mini-integer >>> arithmetic evaluator which avoids even the most remote possibility >>> of exploit. >> >> That's obviously the "right" thing to do. I suppose I should figure >> out how to use the ast module. > > Someone has already created a module that does this called numexpr. Is > there some reason why you don't want to use that?
1) I didn't know about it, and my Googling didn't find it. 2) It's not part of the standard library, and my program needs to be distributed as a single source file. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
