diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 8089df1..8a413f4 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -335,6 +335,9 @@
    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]])