On 20 May 2013 09:19, "Frank Millman" <fr...@chagford.com> wrote: > Quoting from the manual - > > "Safely evaluate an expression node or a string containing a Python expression. The string or node provided may only consist of the following Python literal structures: strings, bytes, numbers, tuples, lists, dicts, sets, booleans, and None." > > The operative word is 'safely'. I don't know the details, but it prevents the kinds of exploits that can be carried out by malicious code using eval().
Literals are only a subset of expressions. The documentation is a bit misleading, by stating it accepts a "python expression". This individual is rightfully confused.
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