converting string to dict ?

[Radovan Garabik]

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?

maybe not clean, but try dict = eval("{'name':'Cleopatra'}")



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