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convert a string into a dictionary

What is one of the pythonic ways to convert a string which has a built-in dictionary formatting into a dictionary? I have tried regex but it isn't quite there to be the right formatting .

string_dictable ="""name"":""Andrew,Carnegie"",""short_name"":""And,Car"",
""YOB"":1835,""Citizen"":""Scottish"""


All the extra quotation paddings seem to be the problem and so far I haven't been able to work around them.

My expected output is:

dicted_string ="name":"Andrew, Carnegie","short_name":"And,Car","YOB":1835,"Citizen":"Scottish"


I have also tried

ast.literal_eval (string_dictable)


to no avail.

EDIT:
I haven't touched the original formatting and unfortunately, the original question cannot be clarified or modified. Thanks all for the contribution though.
As I have said the regex solution got me this

'name': 'Andrew,Carnegie,short_name:And,Car,YOB:1835,Citizen:Scottish'


and it isn't exactly what I needed to do some work on.

ast.literal_eval(yourstring.replace('""', '"'))

"

"abc""123"

"abc1123"

4 Answers
4

Your string_dictable has syntax errors (it has two quotation marks where there should be one). Try this:

string_dictable

string_dictable = '"name":"Andrew,Carnegie","short_name":"And,Car", "YOB":1835,"Citizen":"Scottish"'
dict = ast.literal_eval (string_dictable)


Solution using

import json
dicted_string = json.loads(string_dictable.replace('""','"')


There is no elegant way that I know of which will handle the double double quotes in the original string, otherwise the string is basically good json format.

If you are able to change the source of your string to eliminate the double double quotes ("") then you can simply feed string_dictable to json.loads to get a dictionary out of the string.

Just replace "" with " and use eval() then.
It's pretty easy, just like this:

string_dictable ='""name"":""Andrew,Carnegie"",""short_name"":""And,Car"",""YOB"":1835,""Citizen"":""Scottish""'
string_dictable = string_dictable.replace('""','"')
d = eval(string_dictable)


d is a valid dictionary.

string_dictable ="""name"":""Andrew,Carnegie"",""short_name"":""And,Car"", ""YOB"":1835,""Citizen"":""Scottish"""

Okay replacing this answer almost entirely but leaving the original below.

So from what I've gathered, the current issue is that the OP has a text file with the following inside of it:
"""name"":""Andrew,Carnegie"",""short_name"":""And,Car"",""YOB"":1835,""Citizen"":""Scottish"""

"""name"":""Andrew,Carnegie"",""short_name"":""And,Car"",""YOB"":1835,""Citizen"":""Scottish"""

So, when reading the file into python, this is what needs to happen:

f = open('stack.txt','r+') #I've made a text file with the above inside of it named stack.txt
for i in f:
fixed = str(i).replace('"', "'")
fixed = fixed.replace("''", '"')
d = eval(fixed)


d will now be formatted as such: "name":"Andrew,Carnegie","short_name":"And,Car","YOB":1835,"Citizen":"Scottish"

"name":"Andrew,Carnegie","short_name":"And,Car","YOB":1835,"Citizen":"Scottish"

The first fix changes it to: '''name'':''Andrew,Carnegie'',''short_name'':''And,Car'',''YOB'':1835,''Citizen'':''Scottish'''

'''name'':''Andrew,Carnegie'',''short_name'':''And,Car'',''YOB'':1835,''Citizen'':''Scottish'''

Second run through fixes the '' issue:
'"name":"Andrew,Carnegie","short_name":"And,Car","YOB":1835,"Citizen":"Scottish"'

'"name":"Andrew,Carnegie","short_name":"And,Car","YOB":1835,"Citizen":"Scottish"'

Finally the eval turns it into a dictionary.

Very easily using eval(string)

eval(string)

Here's a quick mock-up I did. Make sure to use similar syntax, and you should be good to go.

>>> String = '"name":"Andrew,Carnegie","short_name":"And,Car", "YOB":1835,"Citizen":"Scottish"'
>>> dictionary = eval(String)
>>> dictionary['name']
'Andrew,Carnegie'
>>>


EDIT: Not sure why this is being downvoted so far, the eval() method is the easiest way to convert a string to dictionary, if the input can't be modified by OP then I can work on a solution but the issue is that the original string can't even be read by Python:

eval()

>>> string_dictable ="""name"":""Andrew,Carnegie"",""short_name"":""And,Car"",
""YOB"":1835,""Citizen"":""Scottish"""
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal


So unless it's stored in a text file and the variable can be modified as it's input there's not much that can be done from a python standpoint.

string_dictable

'name:Andrew,Carnegie,short_name:And,Car,YOB:1835,Citizen:Scottish'

f = open("file.txt', "r"')

string_dictable =

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