R. David Murray added the comment:
Right, this isn't a bug, it is that literal_eval is intended only to support
*literals*, not expressions. See also issue 22525.
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Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:
No it doesn't support all Python operators.
>>> ast.literal_eval('2*3')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/ast.py", line 84, in literal_eval
return _convert(node_or_string)
File "/usr/lib/python3.4/ast.py
New submission from Larry Hastings:
ast.literal_eval() supports all Python operators, yes? No. It doesn't support
"if/else", Python's ternary operator.
Is there a reason it does not? I think it probably should.
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