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Author rhettinger
Recipients BTaskaya, docs@python, pablogsal, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2020-01-06.19:24:06
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> The function literal_eval is not safe anymore as the 
> constructor can be intercepted

"Safe" means safe from user input to literal_eval().

If a person can already write arbitrary code that redefines a builtin, then they can already do anything they want.
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