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jstitch/stringdict2dict.py

Created March 15, 2012 20:35
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Convert a string representing a dictionary into an actual dictionary
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stringdict2dict.py
st = "{'a':'b','c':'d'}"
dc = dict([[g.replace("'","").replace('"',"") for g in f.split(":")] for f in st[1:-1].split(",")])
st2 = "'a':'b','c':'d'"
dc = dict([[g.replace("'","").replace('"',"") for g in f.split(":")] for f in st2[1:-1].split(",")])
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