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eevee on April 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: PHP: A fractal of bad design

JSON will let you do that just as well. Or, if you must, there's ast.literal_eval which will only allow Python literals.

scott_s on April 11, 2012 [–]

I see no reason to use JavaScript to process my data files - keep in mind this is data post-processing of experiments, not a user-facing application. And I enjoy Python, so I'll stick with it. But thanks for the pointer to literal_eval, I have not explored that part of the standard library.

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