diff --git a/Doc/library/ast.rst b/Doc/library/ast.rst
index 9bf374f4256..43c9add1428 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ast.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ast.rst
@@ -119,12 +119,15 @@ and classes for traversing abstract syntax trees:
 
    Safely evaluate an expression node or a string containing a Python
    expression.  The string or node provided may only consist of the following
-   Python literal structures: strings, numbers, tuples, lists, dicts, booleans,
-   and ``None``.
+   Python literal structures: strings, numbers, tuples, lists, dicts, sets,
+   booleans, and ``None``.
 
    This can be used for safely evaluating strings containing Python expressions
    from untrusted sources without the need to parse the values oneself.
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.2
+      Now allows set literals.
+
 
 .. function:: get_docstring(node, clean=True)
 
diff --git a/Lib/ast.py b/Lib/ast.py
index 0b8baf752e0..092f07790fe 100644
--- a/Lib/ast.py
+++ b/Lib/ast.py
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ def literal_eval(node_or_string):
             return tuple(map(_convert, node.elts))
         elif isinstance(node, List):
             return list(map(_convert, node.elts))
+        elif isinstance(node, Set):
+            return set(map(_convert, node.elts))
         elif isinstance(node, Dict):
             return dict((_convert(k), _convert(v)) for k, v
                         in zip(node.keys, node.values))
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b72e78a07e2..dbfc4c5d68f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -470,7 +470,9 @@ C-API
 Library
 -------
 
-- Issue #9164: Ensure that sysconfig handles duplicate -arch flags in CFLAGS
+- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows set literals.
+
+- Issue #9164: Ensure that sysconfig handles duplicate -arch flags in CFLAGS.
 
 - Issue #7646: The fnmatch pattern cache no longer grows without bound.