converting string to dict ?
Aahz Maruch
aahz at panix.com
Wed Apr 11 19:28:39 EDT 2001
In article <td8bji613hivc6 at corp.supernews.com>,
Jason Cunliffe <jasonic at nomadicsltd.com> wrote:
>
>A web input form passes {'name':'Cleopatra'} as a string.
>Please, is there a nice clean function to convert this string to a dict?
Redesign your web form. Seriously. At the very least, change this to
use a single delimiter between key and value, such as
name/Cleopatra
More conversion work (slightly), but much, much, much safer.
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