Question

How can I turn this string

"((145541L, u'/.stats/'), (175706L, u'///')"

to a json object in python such as

{'145541' : '/.stats/',
 '175706' : '///'
 }

I’ve been trying tuple() and others but it does

Thanks

Answer 1

You do most probably have a tuple of tuples, and want to create a dictionary. To do so, try the following:

data = ((145541L, u'/.stats/'), (175706L, u'///'))
result = dict(data)

If what you have is really a string, add the initial line:

data = "((145541L, u'/.stats/'), (175706L, u'///'))"
data = eval(data)
result = dict(data)

As pointed by @Volatility, eval may be dangerous, since it evaluates any piece of code, not only literals. This way someone could execute commands on your program if you received commands on your strings.

To avoid so, you may use ast.literal_eval instead:

from ast import literal_eval
data = "((145541L, u'/.stats/'), (175706L, u'///'))"
result = dict(literal_eval(data))