Why does pickle use eval for loading string values?

[Brian Kelley]

Tim Peters wrote:

> <SNIP>
> 
> If that bothers you, and you don't open a report on it, you can be almost
> certain the behavior will never change.  If you do open a report, your
> chance of satisfiction zooms to something above 0% <wink>.
> 

Yep.  Now that I know the problem I can implement a solution as well as 
opening a report :)

Brian Kelley
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research