Pablo Galindo Salgado <pablogsal@gmail.com> added the comment:

"Safe" means safe from user input to literal_eval().

Yup, apologies. I had something in mind and I realized after writing my initial comment. That is why I said afterwards:

and the security concern is non-existent.

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