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13 changes: 12 additions & 1 deletion quantities/registry.py
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
"""
"""

import copy
import re
import builtins


class UnitRegistry:
Expand All @@ -16,6 +16,17 @@ def __init__(self):
self.__context = {}

def __getitem__(self, string):

# easy hack to prevent arbitrary evaluation of code
all_builtins = dir(builtins)
# because we have kilobytes, other bytes we have to remove bytes
all_builtins.remove("bytes")
# have to deal with octet as well
all_builtins.remove("oct")
for builtin in all_builtins:
if builtin in string:
raise RuntimeError(f"String parsing error for {string}. Enter a string accepted by quantities")

try:
return eval(string, self.__context)
except NameError:
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