converting string to dict ?

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Jason Cunliffe 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?

   "eval"

   Please, please send me your URL - I will hack you through your call to the
eval! :)))
   Seriously, do not trust ANYTHING from the web. Do not convert things
into objects, do not eval them - NEVER!

Oleg.
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