commit dc118790de7e608851e646d8b28020122707d31a
author Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> Fri Nov 09 11:46:19 2012 +0100
committer Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti@gmail.com> Fri Nov 09 11:46:19 2012 +0100
tree de65a264537836d62014023a72b61e6dc54a6c2a
parent 090177676a0449bc5625fc4fdc870b7c9a9f913a

#13301: use ast.literal_eval() instead of eval() in Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py

diff --git a/Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py b/Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py
index 5dd5430..8c9b9dc 100755
--- a/Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py
+++ b/Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py
@@ -25,8 +25,9 @@
         Display version information and exit.
 """
 
-import sys
 import os
+import sys
+import ast
 import getopt
 import struct
 import array
@@ -170,8 +171,7 @@
         l = l.strip()
         if not l:
             continue
-        # XXX: Does this always follow Python escape semantics?
-        l = eval(l)
+        l = ast.literal_eval(l)
         if section == ID:
             msgid += l
         elif section == STR: