converting string to dict ?

[Richard Scott Glazerman]

Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
: Richard Scott Glazerman wrote:
:> what about exec?? (somebody please let me know if there is something wrong
:> with using exec this way, I've used it many times for just that purpose.)
:>
:> >>> a = "{'Name':'Cleopatra'}"
:> >>> exec 'a = %s' % a
:> >>> a
:> {'Name': 'Cleopatra'}

: a = "__import__('os').system('rm -rf ~')"

: see my earlier reply to this thread, and the followups to
: that post.

: Cheers /F

Ah... from the web, that I understand... I've been using it with
Dictionaries created locally (for the most part, in passing dictionaries
to COM objects).

Point well taken.

Rich
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