Question

if I’ve string like

"{ partner_name = test_partner}" OR " { partner_name : test_partner }

its an example string will be very complex with several special characters included like =, [ , ] , { , }

what will be the best way to convert it into a python object – so I can process it

I tried with eval but it requires ” ‘ ” for string, but how can we add this special character \’ before starting and ending of every word, I tried regular express re.findal(‘\w+’) but it fails when my string contains ‘ _ ‘ or like characters as it will separate the string by ‘ _ ‘

Object of this question is my application needs, user friendly language as input – and I thought Json Dict will be good – but user is lazzy to put ” ‘ ” before and after of each string…

then I thought for yaml but its also complex, if anybody can suggest better user friendly input which I use as python object – then please help me out.

Answer 1

If YAML is too complex for your users, you should perhaps think about giving them a structured input form and formatting the data correctly from there. YAML is pretty much as easy to write as possible for specifying structures, certainly easier than the curly braces syntax.