[Python-ideas] Any chance on (slowly) deprecating `eval` and `exec` as builtins?

[Serhiy Storchaka]

07.11.17 12:29, אלעזר пише:
> Also, it is unfortunate that `ast.literal_eval` is less accessible than 
> `builtins.eval`. Giving it an alias in builtins might make it easier for 
> programmers (and less scary - "ast" might sound like I need a PhD to use 
> it).

ast.literal_eval is not so safe as you think. Malicious input can cause 
a stack overflow in your program. [1]

[1] https://bugs.python.org/issue31113