[Python-ideas] frozenset literals

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 3 Feb 2013 00:28:55 +1000
Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, I could personally tolerate the introduction of s{} and fs{}
> literals. We'd just declare the "s" prefix optional for non-empty sets to
> match the current rules.
> 
> Encouraging the use of ast.literal_eval() over the security nightmare that
> is eval() would be more than enough justification for me. (As a syntax
> change, the idea would still need a PEP, though)

If it is enough of a justification, then why not literal support for
more useful datatypes (decimal, datetime...) rather than frozenset?

Regards

Antoine.