Closes #22525: clarify documentation for ast.literal_eval().
diff --git a/Doc/library/ast.rst b/Doc/library/ast.rst
index 8adc88f..cf0c32e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ast.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ast.rst
@@ -132,12 +132,14 @@
.. function:: literal_eval(node_or_string)
Safely evaluate an expression node or a Unicode or *Latin-1* encoded string
- containing a Python expression. The string or node provided may only consist
- of the following Python literal structures: strings, numbers, tuples, lists,
- dicts, booleans, and ``None``.
+ containing a Python literal or container display. The string or node
+ provided may only consist of the following Python literal structures:
+ strings, numbers, tuples, lists, dicts, booleans, and ``None``.
- This can be used for safely evaluating strings containing Python expressions
- from untrusted sources without the need to parse the values oneself.
+ This can be used for safely evaluating strings containing Python values from
+ untrusted sources without the need to parse the values oneself. It is not
+ capable of evaluating arbitrarily complex expressions, for example involving
+ operators or indexing.
.. function:: get_docstring(node, clean=True)