convert string to dict using list comprehension

Question

I have came across this problem a few times and can\'t seem to figure out a simple solution. Say I have a string

string = \"a=0 b=1 c=3\"

I wan

Answer 1

How about a one-liner without list comprehension?

 foo="a=0 b=1 c=3"
 ans=eval( 'dict(%s)'%foo.replace(' ',',')) )
 print ans
{'a': 0, 'c': 3, 'b': 1}