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[โ€“] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Given the warning about capitalization, the best possible case is that they're using ast.literal_eval() rather than throwing untrusted input into eval().

Err, I guess they might be comparing strings to 'True' and are choosing to be really strict about capitalization for some reason.

[โ€“] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago

Yeah. Maybe .to_lower() is really expensive in their environment, lol.