I'm trying to achieve the same behavior with ast.literal_eval as with eval, is it possible somehow?

import ast
class MyClass():
    ...


class_string = "MyClass"

eval_clas = eval(class_string)
print(eval_clas)

ast_class = ast.literal_eval(class_string)
print(ast_class)

the output of eval_class:

<class '__main__.MyClass'>

When I try to do the same thing with literal_eval I'm getting

ValueError: malformed node or string: <_ast.Name object at 0x7f1670b9a520>

CodePudding user response：

ast.literal_eval docs claims that

Safely evaluate an expression node or a string containing a Python literal or container display. The string or node provided may only consist of the following Python literal structures: strings, bytes, numbers, tuples, lists, dicts, sets, booleans, None and Ellipsis.

custom classes are not supported by that function, as they are not enumerated