[Tutor] Converting from unicode to nonstring

[David Hutto]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
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> "David Hutto" <smokefloat at gmail.com> wrote
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>> it's not necessary to worry about insertion of data other than my own
>> inputs.
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> But can you be sure that you won't accidentally mistype something
> that eval can read as valid code but that does something unexpected
> - even if its only throw an apparently bizarre error dump at you...

probably not, because I haven't had much experience with using eval.

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> Relying on eval() reading your database content as if it were Python
> code - which is what it does - is a risky strategy.
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> But, heh, it's your data, your project, so as long as you understand
> the risks then it's your decision. :-)

It's not that I want faulty data, it was the only thing thus far I'd
tried that worked under the generalized circumstances I'm testing it
under.

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