On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Joel Goldstick <joel.goldst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh, now I see. Do you know about this: > https://docs.python.org/2/library/ast.html#ast.literal_eval
As the name suggests, that only evals literals. It won't work for complex expressions like "i + j > 4" -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list