[Distutils] comparison of configuration languages

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 8:14 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
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> The only other option I think that could work is what Chris (I think?)
> suggested and just use a Python literal evaluated using ``ast.literal_eval()``

Oh, good point, that should definitely be on the list of options
considered regardless of whether we go for it. I won't add it now
because I just switched to Windows to play games with my wife and my
emacs is on the other partition, but I'll add it later.

Does anyone know how literal_eval handles Unicode on py2?

-n

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