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--- convert_a_string_to_a_dictionary [2023/02/26 03:10] – created raju
+++ convert_a_string_to_a_dictionary [2023/02/26 03:28] (current) – [ast.literaleval] raju
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 ===== Convert a string to a dictionary =====
+==== ast.literaleval ====
 You can use ast.literaleval from the ast (Abstract Syntax Trees) module.
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 See also:
-  * https://docs.python.org/3/library/ast.html#ast.literal_eval - documentation on ast.literal_eval
   * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/988228/convert-a-string-representation-of-a-dictionary-to-a-dictionary - where I got the answer from
+==== json.loads ====
-Another approach is to use json.loads . But its decoder wants double quotes around keys and values.
+Another approach is to use json.loads . But its decoder wants double quotes around strings.
 <code>
-In [4]:
+In [1]:
 s = "{'muffin' : 'lolz', 'foo' : 'kitty'}"
+In [2]:
 import json
-json.loads(s.replace("'", "\""))
+json.loads(s)
-Out[4]:
+...
+JSONDecodeError: Expecting property name enclosed in double quotes: line 1 column 2 (char 1)
+</code>
+One workaround is to replace single quotes with double quotes
+<code>
+In [3]:
+s2 = s.replace("'", "\"")
+json.loads(s2)
+Out[3]:
 {'muffin': 'lolz', 'foo': 'kitty'}
-In [5]:
+In [4]:
-type(json.loads(s.replace("'", "\"")))
+type(json.loads(s2))
-Out[5]:
+Out[4]:
 dict
 </code>