diff -r 1267d64c14b3 Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py
--- a/Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py	Thu Nov 01 14:52:03 2012 +0200
+++ b/Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py	Thu Nov 01 22:10:42 2012 +0200
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 import getopt
 import struct
 import array
+import ast
 from email.parser import HeaderParser
 
 __version__ = "1.1"
@@ -181,7 +182,7 @@
         if not l:
             continue
         # XXX: Does this always follow Python escape semantics?
-        l = eval(l)
+        l = ast.literal_eval(l)
         if section == ID:
             msgid += l.encode(encoding)
         elif section == STR: