A pointless function that lets you ignore putting quotes around one-word strings

assume_quotes.py

"""
A pointless function that lets you ignore putting quotes around one-word strings
Not sure why I wrote this, but eval() is fun... right?

Input: "{cats: 3, dogs: [id, print]}"
Output: {'cats': 3, 'dogs': ['id', 'print']}
"""
def assume_quotes(data):
    context_globals = {"__builtins__": {}}
    context_locals = {}
    finished = False
    while not finished:
        try:
            # eval with as much isolation as possible (not much really)
            converted_data = eval(data, context_globals, context_locals)
            finished = True
        except NameError as e:
            tmp = str(e).split("'")[1]
            context_locals[tmp] = tmp
            continue
        except AttributeError as e:
            raise SyntaxError("Periods must be inside quotes") from e
        except Exception as e:
            if type(e) != SyntaxError:
                raise SyntaxError(f"This must be in quotes") from e
            raise
    return converted_data