Convert unicode string dictionary into dictionary in python

Question

I have unicode u"{'code1':1,'code2':1}" and I want it in dictionary format.

I want it in {'code1':1,'code2':1} format.

I tried unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', my_data).encode('ascii','ignore') but it returns string not dictionary.

Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

You can use built-in ast package:

import ast  d = ast.literal_eval("{'code1':1,'code2':1}") 

Help on function literal_eval in module ast:

literal_eval(node_or_string)

Safely evaluate an expression node or a string containing a Python expression. The string or node provided may only consist of the following Python literal structures: strings, numbers, tuples, lists, dicts, booleans, and None.

Answer 2

You can use literal_eval. You may also want to be sure you are creating a dict and not something else. Instead of assert, use your own error handling.

from ast import literal_eval from collections import MutableMapping  my_dict = literal_eval(my_str_dict) assert isinstance(my_dict, MutableMapping)