Convert String to Dictionary question

[Quinn Dunkan]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 21:27:48 +0000, John J. Lee <jjl at pobox.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, MDK wrote:
>
>> I saved my dictionary {'hello1': [1, 0, 0]} to a file.
>>
>> When I do a readline the I get back a string.
>>
>> How do I convert this string to a dictionary?
>
>You probably don't want to.  Read the documentation for the pickle module.

Or if you do, say because 'repr' format is more human readable than pickle,
do 'd = eval(fp.readline())'.  As always with eval(), if bad guys can edit your
file, you're in trouble.  Of course, if they can edit your pickle, you're in
trouble too.