Evaluating the contents of a string

[Andrew Markebo]

Maybe eval??

>>> eval("10*2")
20


Warning though.. eval takes the string and parses it as normal python,
so theoretically someone could do:

ad=(os.system('rm -rf /'))

        /Andy


/ Aaron Ginn <aaron.ginn at motorola.com> wrote:
| Is there a simple way to evaluate the contents of a string assuming
| that string contains only nunbers and mathematical operators?