From 17d91d03b5bc4d92222adddd8688d1b40311ea74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gui-FernandesBR <guilherme_fernandes@usp.br>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 11:22:13 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] MNT: Refactor input/output log parsing to use JSON instead of
 ast.literal_eval()

---
 rocketpy/simulation/monte_carlo.py | 27 +++++++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rocketpy/simulation/monte_carlo.py b/rocketpy/simulation/monte_carlo.py
index 52ceed165..4ba34f920 100644
--- a/rocketpy/simulation/monte_carlo.py
+++ b/rocketpy/simulation/monte_carlo.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import ast
+import json
 from time import process_time, time
 
 import numpy as np
@@ -447,9 +447,12 @@ def set_inputs_log(self):
                 if line[0] != "{":
                     continue
                 # Try to convert the line to a dictionary
-                d = ast.literal_eval(line)
-                # If successful, append the dictionary to the list
-                self.inputs_log.append(d)
+                try:
+                    d = json.loads(line)
+                    # If successful, append the dictionary to the list
+                    self.inputs_log.append(d)
+                except json.JSONDecodeError:
+                    continue
 
     def set_outputs_log(self):
         """Sets outputs_log from a file into an attribute for easy access"""
@@ -461,9 +464,11 @@ def set_outputs_log(self):
                 if line[0] != "{":
                     continue
                 # Try to convert the line to a dictionary
-                d = ast.literal_eval(line)
-                # If successful, append the dictionary to the list
-                self.outputs_log.append(d)
+                try:
+                    # If successful, append the dictionary to the list
+                    self.outputs_log.append(json.loads(line))
+                except json.JSONDecodeError:
+                    continue
 
     def set_errors_log(self):
         """Sets errors_log log from a file into an attribute for easy access"""
@@ -475,9 +480,11 @@ def set_errors_log(self):
                 if line[0] != "{":
                     continue
                 # Try to convert the line to a dictionary
-                d = ast.literal_eval(line)
-                # If successful, append the dictionary to the list
-                self.errors_log.append(d)
+                try:
+                    # If successful, append the dictionary to the list
+                    self.errors_log.append(json.loads(line))
+                except json.JSONDecodeError:
+                    continue
 
     def set_num_of_loaded_sims(self):
         """Number of simulations loaded from output_file being currently used."""