Hello, I have a string input from the user, and want to parse it to a number, and would like to know how to do it. I would like to be able to accept arithmetic operations, like:
'5+5' '(4+3)*2' '5e3/10**3' I thought of using eval, which will work, but could lead to bad security problems (not that it's a big deal in my app, but still...) string.atof won't do the job. Is there a preferred way of doing this? thanks, Brian Blais -- ----------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.bryant.edu/~bblais -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list