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To convert a Python string to a dictionary, use the json. loads() function. The json. loads() is a built-in Python function that converts a valid string to a dict.
Method 4: If the string is itself in the form of string dictionary In this approach, a string which is already in the form of string dictionary i.e., the string has a dictionary expression is converted into a dictionary using ast. literal_eval() method. Below is the implementation of the approach.
Second, a dictionary key must be of a type that is immutable. For example, you can use an integer, float, string, or Boolean as a dictionary key.
This data is JSON! You can deserialize it using the built-in json module if you're on Python 2.6+, otherwise you can use the excellent third-party simplejson module.
import json # or `import simplejson as json` if on Python < 2.6
json_string = u'{ "id":"123456789", ... }'
obj = json.loads(json_string) # obj now contains a dict of the data
Use ast.literal_eval to evaluate Python literals. However, what you have is JSON (note "true" for example), so use a JSON deserializer.
>>> import json
>>> s = """{"id":"123456789","name":"John Doe","first_name":"John","last_name":"Doe","link":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jdoe","gender":"male","email":"jdoe\u0040gmail.com","timezone":-7,"locale":"en_US","verified":true,"updated_time":"2011-01-12T02:43:35+0000"}"""
>>> json.loads(s)
{u'first_name': u'John', u'last_name': u'Doe', u'verified': True, u'name': u'John Doe', u'locale': u'en_US', u'gender': u'male', u'email': u'[email protected]', u'link': u'http://www.facebook.com/jdoe', u'timezone': -7, u'updated_time': u'2011-01-12T02:43:35+0000', u'id': u'123456789'}
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