converting string to dict ?

[Simon Brunning]

> From:	Jason Cunliffe [SMTP:jasonic at nomadicsltd.com]
> A web input form  passes {'name':'Cleopatra'} as a string.
> 
> Please, is there a nice clean function to convert this string to a dict?
 
You want eval:

>>> fred = "{'name':'Cleopatra'}"
>>> barney = eval(fred)
>>> barney
{'name': 'Cleopatra'}
>>> barney['name']
'Cleopatra'

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk





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