Use ast.literal_eval to implement safeEval

Fixes #75
fonttools · Jan 14, 2014 · f5d123b · f5d123b
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diff --git a/Lib/fontTools/misc/textTools.py b/Lib/fontTools/misc/textTools.py
@@ -3,13 +3,11 @@
 
 from __future__ import print_function, division
 from fontTools.misc.py23 import *
+import ast
 import string
 
 
-def safeEval(data, eval=eval):
-	"""A (kindof) safe replacement for eval."""
-	return eval(data, {"__builtins__":{}})
-
+safeEval = ast.literal_eval
 
 def readHex(content):
 	"""Convert a list of hex strings to binary data."""