converting string to dict ?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <td8bji613hivc6 at corp.supernews.com>,
Jason Cunliffe <jasonic at nomadicsltd.com> wrote:
>
>A web input form  passes {'name':'Cleopatra'} as a string.
>Please, is there a nice clean function to convert this string to a dict?

Redesign your web form.  Seriously.  At the very least, change this to
use a single delimiter between key and value, such as 

    name/Cleopatra

More conversion work (slightly), but much, much, much safer.
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