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Author	BTaskaya
Recipients	BTaskaya, gousaiyang, pablogsal
Date	2020-09-30.15:58:30
SpamBayes Score	-1.0
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Message-id	<1601481510.46.0.0998418291975.issue41887@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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Looks like skipping the leading whitespace is an undocumented behavior for eval() introduced back in 1992 (f08ab0ad158f88f05dd923b129d2397e1882be14). I don't think that bringing it to the literal_eval is a good idea, at least after this much of a time. If so, both of them should be explicitly documented or at least mentioned in the source code (to avoid confusion).

Looks like skipping the leading whitespace is an undocumented behavior for eval() introduced back in 1992 (f08ab0ad158f88f05dd923b129d2397e1882be14). I don't think that bringing it to the literal_eval is a good idea, at least after this much of a time. If so, both of them should be explicitly documented or at least mentioned in the source code (to avoid confusion).

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Date	User	Action	Args
2020-09-30 15:58:30	BTaskaya	set	recipients: + BTaskaya, pablogsal, gousaiyang
2020-09-30 15:58:30	BTaskaya	set	messageid: <1601481510.46.0.0998418291975.issue41887@roundup.psfhosted.org>
2020-09-30 15:58:30	BTaskaya	link	issue41887 messages
2020-09-30 15:58:30	BTaskaya	create