python ast vs json for str to dict translation
问题 I have a piece of code that receives a string formatted as a python dictionary "{'a':'1','b':'2',...}" which I need to convert to a proper dictionary. I have tried two approaches, using json.loads(s) and ast.literal_eval(s) ast seems to be much more robust, accepting any form of quotes in the string and "just works" while json seems to be very picky about the quoting specifics and wouldn't fail on only a single form of quote format. I really would like to be as flexible as possible with the