questions about how to parse a string and put it in a dictionary

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I've got a string which (without any CR or LF) consists of

'attribute1=attribute_value;attribute2=attribute_value2; ...'

and I want them to read in a dictionary so that the attribute name is
the key and the attribute value is the data.

Any ideas for an implementation?

Greetings and thanks
jb