From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:42:10 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: #7935: cross-reference to ast.literal_eval() from eval() docs.
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#7935: cross-reference to ast.literal_eval() from eval() docs.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 8089df15a2..8a413f4bc8 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -335,6 +335,9 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
    returns the current global and local dictionary, respectively, which may be
    useful to pass around for use by :func:`eval` or :func:`exec`.
 
+   See :func:`ast.literal_eval` for a function that can safely evaluate strings
+   with expressions containing only literals.
+
 
 .. function:: exec(object[, globals[, locals]])