From ee7b25b8cf1ea7c1dbe7ea486b6d83ebf1c59d16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Silvano Cerza <3314350+silvanocerza@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2023 13:30:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Remove unecessary literal_eval (#4570)

---
 haystack/nodes/prompt/prompt_template.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/haystack/nodes/prompt/prompt_template.py b/haystack/nodes/prompt/prompt_template.py
index 0f158233b..55bcc211c 100644
--- a/haystack/nodes/prompt/prompt_template.py
+++ b/haystack/nodes/prompt/prompt_template.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ from typing import Optional, List, Union, Tuple, Dict, Iterator, Any
 import logging
 import os
 import ast
+import json
 from abc import ABC
 from uuid import uuid4
 
@@ -21,7 +22,7 @@ from haystack.schema import Document, MultiLabel
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
-PROMPT_TEMPLATE_ALLOWED_FUNCTIONS = ast.literal_eval(
+PROMPT_TEMPLATE_ALLOWED_FUNCTIONS = json.loads(
     os.environ.get(HAYSTACK_PROMPT_TEMPLATE_ALLOWED_FUNCTIONS, '["join", "to_strings", "replace", "enumerate", "str"]')
 )
 PROMPT_TEMPLATE_SPECIAL_CHAR_ALIAS = {"new_line": "\n", "tab": "\t", "double_quote": '"', "carriage_return": "\r"}