Merged revisions 82828 via svnmerge from

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/py3k

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  r82828 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-07-11 18:06:06 -0500 (Sun, 11 Jul 2010) | 1 line

  allow byte literals
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Lib/ast.py

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ def literal_eval(node_or_string):
     if isinstance(node_or_string, Expression):
         node_or_string = node_or_string.body
     def _convert(node):
-        if isinstance(node, Str):
+        if isinstance(node, (Str, Bytes)):
             return node.s
         elif isinstance(node, Num):
             return node.n

Lib/test/test_ast.py

@@ -271,6 +271,7 @@ class ASTHelpers_Test(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(ast.literal_eval('[1, 2, 3]'), [1, 2, 3])
         self.assertEqual(ast.literal_eval('{"foo": 42}'), {"foo": 42})
         self.assertEqual(ast.literal_eval('(True, False, None)'), (True, False, None))
+        self.assertEqual(ast.literal_eval('b"hi"'), b"hi")
         self.assertRaises(ValueError, ast.literal_eval, 'foo()')
 
     def test_literal_eval_issue4907(self):

Misc/NEWS

@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ C-API
 Library
 -------
 
+- ``ast.literal_eval()`` now allows byte literals.
+
 - Issue #9137: Fix issue in MutableMapping.update, which incorrectly
   treated keyword arguments called 'self' or 'other' specially.