[issue24663] ast.literal_eval does not handle empty set literals

New submission from Filip Haglund: ast.literal_eval handles sets, if they contain at least one value, but does not handle empty ones, which are represented as `set()` since `{}` is already used by dicts. -- components: Library (Lib) messages: 246906 nosy: Filip Haglund priority

[issue24663] ast.literal_eval does not handle empty set literals

Filip Haglund added the comment: Okey, then this is not a bug. I can just handle this special case myself. Thanks! -- status: pending -> closed ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issu

[issue26077] Make slicing of immutable structures return a view instead of a copy

New submission from Filip Haglund: Slicing tuples returns a copy, which is O(n) time. This could be O(1) since tuples are immutable, by just pointing to the same data. This probably applies to other immutable structures as well, such as strings. -- components: Interpreter Core