Well you have a total of 4 questions, let us go one by one. 1. Why does str(list) returns how we see list on the console? How does str(list) work? What is str() and __str__()? The str() callable is to return a printable form of the object only! From the docs str(object) does not always attempt to return a string that is acceptable to eval(); its goal is to return a … Read more
When you use a command substitution (i.e., the $(…) construct), you are creating a subshell. Subshells inherit variables from their parent shells, but this only works one way: A subshell cannot modify the environment of its parent shell. Your variable e is set within a subshell, but not the parent shell. There are two ways to pass values from … Read more
When you use a command substitution (i.e., the $(…) construct), you are creating a subshell. Subshells inherit variables from their parent shells, but this only works one way: A subshell cannot modify the environment of its parent shell. Your variable e is set within a subshell, but not the parent shell. There are two ways to pass values from … Read more
datamap = eval(input(‘Provide some data here: ‘)) means that you actually evaluate the code before you deem it to be unsafe or not. It evaluates the code as soon as the function is called. See also the dangers of eval. ast.literal_eval raises an exception if the input isn’t a valid Python datatype, so the code won’t be executed if it’s not. … Read more