Would this use of eval be safe?

Question

Python

I have an implementation of Set in a separate set.py module and it has a conversion of the value entered in the console, a conversion to the type that I originally entered.
The check itself:

def _conversion(self, val):
        """ Convert value in needed type """
        try:
            return eval(self.__set_type)(val)
        except ValueError:
            print("ValueError: Wrong input")
            return None

If I limit the input to a set of 'int' 'float' etc. at the very beginning in main.py using if , then can eval be considered safe now?

Answer 1

such an eval cannot be used just because it is unsafe. In fact, if using eval doesn't make things worse, then why not.
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It's not just about eval.
Once I heard from a student about the following reasoning when he needed to write a simple calculator:

eval cannot be used (unsafe), so I write user input to a python file and import this file as a module...

Answer 2

Use safe eval:
from ast import literal_eval as eval