[Tutor] bug in eval() ? or doing something forbidden ?

[Michael Janssen]

On Mon, 10 May 2004, Steckel, Ralf wrote:

> Dear Tutor,
>
> I'm trying to get the string representation of a string variable containing
> the unicode representation of a string via eval().

eval evaluates python expressions.

>>> eval("1+1")
2
>>> a="abc"
>>> eval("a")
'abc'
>>> eval("(a == 'abc')")
True


and things like this. "string representation" is done with repr():

>>> print repr(a)
'abc'


Michael