Question

I have the following string :

str = "{application.root.category.id:2}"

I would like to convert the above to a dictionary data type in python as in :

dict = {application.root.category.id:2}

I tried using eval() and this is the error I got:

AttributeError: java package ‘application’ has no attribute “root”

My current python is of <2.3 and I cannot update the python to >2.3 .

Any solutions ?

Answer 1

First, ‘dict’ is the type name so not good for the variable name.

The following, does precisely as you asked…

a_dict = dict([str.strip('{}').split(":"),])

But if, as I expect, you want to add more mappings to the dictionary, a different approach is required.