Brian Blais wrote: > Hello, > > I have a string input from the user, and want to parse it to a number, > and would like to know how to do it. I would like to be able to accept > arithmetic operations, like: > > '5+5' > '(4+3)*2' > '5e3/10**3' > > I thought of using eval, which will work, but could lead to bad security > problems (not that it's a big deal in my app, but still...) > > string.atof won't do the job. Is there a preferred way of doing this? > > > thanks, > > > Brian Blais > > I have no idea if it is the right thing for what you need, so it would be nice to get response if it is or not: http://www.strout.net/python/pythonica.html
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