conver string to dictionary

[Michael Bentley]

On Feb 18, 2007, at 12:44 AM, mahdieh saeed wrote:
> I want to convert string to dictionary .what is the best solution  
> for this ?
> for example string is like this:
>
> '{"SalutationID":["primarykey",8388607,0,None],"CompanyID": 
> [0,8388607,0,"index"],
>  "SalutationName":["",255,0,None],"isDefault":["tinyint",1,1,None]}'
>
> and I want to convert this string to this dictionary:
>
> {"SalutationID":["primarykey",8388607,0,None],"CompanyID": 
> [0,8388607,0,"index"],
>  "SalutationName":["",255,0,None],"isDefault":["tinyint",1,1,None]}

# you're the one building the string?
a = eval('{"SalutationID":["primarykey",8388607,0,None],"CompanyID": 
[0,8388607,0,"index"],
  "SalutationName":["",255,0,None],"isDefault":["tinyint",1,1,None]}')

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