Convert a String representation of a Dictionary to a dictionary?

Question

How can I convert the str representation of a dict, such as the following string, into a dict?

s = \"{\'muffin\' : \'l         


        

Answer 1

using json.loads:

>>> import json
>>> h = '{"foo":"bar", "foo2":"bar2"}'
>>> d = json.loads(h)
>>> d
{u'foo': u'bar', u'foo2': u'bar2'}
>>> type(d)