This depends entirely on what you do with the input from the webform. In normal use the form gets encoded as x-www-form-urlencoded or json -- Both formats which can be deserialized into a python dictionary completely safely. Of course, they could be deserialized in unsafe ways too -- Make sure that you use libraries that are dedicated to handling this properly (e.g. urlparse or json).

From there, whether the input is safe depends entirely on what the application does with it. (e.g. it is not safe if the application uses eval with input based on the decoded dict).

As for automated testing for this -- I don't know of any way to accomplish this, but these problems are generally pretty easy to mitigate by just following normal best-practices (don't eval code you don't trust, etc. etc.)

Answer from mgilson on Stack Overflow
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