From 85f2177f6d73bad4a2f84f41db8284216ce5eda1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:38:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add bytes in literal_eval doc. --- Doc/library/ast.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/ast.rst b/Doc/library/ast.rst index 43c9add1428..5e2336f235d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/ast.rst +++ b/Doc/library/ast.rst @@ -119,14 +119,14 @@ 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, sets, - booleans, and ``None``. + Python literal structures: strings, bytes, 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. + Now allows bytes and set literals. .. function:: get_docstring(node, clean=True)