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| author |   Batuhan Taskaya <isidentical@gmail.com> | 2020-12-22 03:15:40 +0300 |
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| committer |   GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-12-21 16:15:40 -0800 |
| commit | fbc7723778be01b8f3bb72d2dcac15ab9fbb9923 (patch) | |
| tree | d14e2f473bfa0a7327e0c2a9f8ea0a3b44a17832 /Doc/library | |
| parent | bpo-42008: Fix internal _random.Random() seeding for the one argument case (G... (diff) | |
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bpo-39159: Declare error that might be raised from literal_eval (GH-19899)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/ast.rst b/Doc/library/ast.rst index 8a5c6ec5f12..9149a53e0dc 100644 --- a/Doc/library/ast.rst +++ b/Doc/library/ast.rst @@ -1576,7 +1576,7 @@ and classes for traversing abstract syntax trees: Safely evaluate an expression node or a string containing a Python literal or container display. The string or node provided may only consist of the following Python literal structures: strings, bytes, numbers, tuples, lists, - dicts, sets, booleans, and ``None``. + dicts, sets, booleans, ``None`` and ``Ellipsis``. This can be used for safely evaluating strings containing Python values from untrusted sources without the need to parse the values oneself. It is not @@ -1588,6 +1588,10 @@ and classes for traversing abstract syntax trees: sufficiently large/complex string due to stack depth limitations in Python's AST compiler. + It can raise :exc:`ValueError`, :exc:`TypeError`, :exc:`SyntaxError`, + :exc:`MemoryError` and :exc:`RecursionError` depending on the malformed + input. + .. versionchanged:: 3.2 Now allows bytes and set literals. |