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gh-100305: Deemphasize that ast.literal_eval is safe in eval documentation #100326

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Expand Up @@ -554,8 +554,9 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
If the given source is a string, then leading and trailing spaces and tabs
are stripped.

See :func:`ast.literal_eval` for a function that can safely evaluate strings
with expressions containing only literals.
.. versionchanged:: 3.11
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I'm not so sure about saying 'version changed', as it seems to imply that only 3.11 has the change, but 3.10 also has it as it was backported (see PR). I'd say it's okay to just keep the original format and adjust the wording.

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done

See :func:`ast.literal_eval` for a function that can "safely" evaluate strings
with expressions containing only literals.

.. audit-event:: exec code_object eval

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