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Expand Up @@ -554,8 +554,10 @@ 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
:func:`ast.literal_eval` is no longer marked as safe for evaluating strings
with expressions containing only literals. For further information, please
check the documentation for :func:`ast.literal_eval`

.. audit-event:: exec code_object eval

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