typecasting: a string object to a dictionary object

[Garry Knight]

In message <Dlw4c.789400$X%5.393213 at pd7tw2no>, midtoad wrote:

> s2 = string.split(s1,',')
...
>         a,b = string.split(item,":")
...

Some further processing will probably be necessary. On my system (Python 2.3
under Mandrake Linux) your code produces the following:

Dictionary is:  {' name2': ' value2', ' name3': ' value3', 'name1': '
value1'}

In other words, it leaves extra spaces in all values and in all keys except
'name1'. Putting the following lines after the a,b = string.split(item,":")
will cure that.

        a = a.strip()
        b = b.strip()

This can be shortened to: a,b = a.strip(),b.strip()
Or, if you're not bothered about doing the 'print mydict[a]' you could
shorten the code by ignoring the above and putting the strip() calls in the
assignment statement:

        mydict[a.strip()] = b.strip()

In my opinion, the first method is the best as it makes it very obvious
what's going on.

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