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gh-141778: Missing validation for allowed constant values in ast.literal_eval() #141933

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10 changes: 8 additions & 2 deletions Lib/ast.py
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"""
from _ast import *

type_None = type(None)
type_Ellipsis = type(...)

def parse(source, filename='<unknown>', mode='exec', *,
type_comments=False, feature_version=None, optimize=-1, module=None):
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"""
Used by `literal_eval` to convert an AST node into a value.
"""
if isinstance(node, Constant):
return node.value
if (
isinstance(node, Constant)
and type(value := node.value) in (int, float, complex, bytes, bool,
type_None, type_Ellipsis)
):
return value
if isinstance(node, Dict) and len(node.keys) == len(node.values):
return dict(zip(
map(_convert_literal, node.keys),
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