loading dictionary from a file

[Amit Gupta]

On Feb 6, 5:33 pm, Ben Finney <bignose+hates-s... at benfinney.id.au>
wrote:
> Amit Gupta <emaila... at gmail.com> writes:
> > Need a python trick, if it exists:
>
> > I have a file that stores key, value in following format
> > --
> > "v1" : "k1",
> > "v2" : "k2"
> > --
>
> > Is there a way to directly load this file as dictionary in python.
>
> That input looks almost like valid JSON <URL:http://json.org/>.
>
> If you can easily massage it into JSON format, you can use the Python
> JSON library <URL:http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/python-json>:
>
>     import json
>
>     input_text = open('foo.txt').read()
>     input_json = "{%(input_text)s}" % vars()
>
>     reader = json.JsonReader()
>     data = reader.read(input_json)
>
> If the 'input_json' above actually is valid JSON, that will give the
> corresponding Python data object.
>
> This avoids the massive security hole of performing 'eval' on
> arbitrary user input; the input isn't executed, merely parsed (as
> JSON) to create a data object.
>
> --
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> Ben Finney

Great Inputs from both the posters.

Thanks