New submission from Jez Hill <jezh...@gmail.com>:
Following `from __future__ import unicode_literals` the expression `eval("
'foo' ")` will return a `unicode` instance. However, using the same input,
`ast.literal_eval(" 'foo' ")` will return a `str` instance. The caller's
preference, that those plain single-quotes should a denote unicode literal, is
respected by `eval()` but not by `ast.literal_eval()`. I propose that
`ast.literal_eval()` be made sensitive to this preference, to bring it in line
with `eval()`.
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messages: 334011
nosy: jez
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: mismatched eval() and ast.literal_eval() behavior with unicode_literals
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7
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