Loop through a dict changing keys

[Jon Clements]

On Oct 16, 12:53 am, PoD <p... at internode.on.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:00:17 -0700, Gnarlodious wrote:
> > What is the best way (Python 3) to loop through dict keys, examine the
> > string, change them if needed, and save the changes to the same dict?
>
> > So for input like this:
> > {'Mobile': 'string', 'context': '<malicious code>', 'order': '7',
> > 'time': 'True'}
>
> > I want to booleanize 'True', turn '7' into an integer, escape
> > '<malicious code>', and ignore 'string'.
>
> > Any elegant Python way to do this?
>
> > -- Gnarlie
>
> How about
>
> data = {
>     'Mobile': 'string',
>     'context': '<malicious code>',
>     'order': '7',
>     'time': 'True'}
> types={'Mobile':str,'context':str,'order':int,'time':bool}
>
> for k,v in data.items():
>     data[k] = types[k](v)

Bit of nit-picking, but:

>>> bool('True')
True
>>> bool('False')
True
>>> bool('')
False