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Interconversions of data types have been discussed many times and have been quite

a popular problem to solve. This ar ticle discusses yet another problem of

interconversion of dictionar y, in string format to a dictionar y. Let ’s discuss cer tain

ways in which this can be done.

Method #1 : Using json.loads()

This task can easily be per formed using the inbuilt function of loads of json librar y of

python which conver ts the string of valid dictionar y into json form, dictionar y in

P ython.

# Python3 code to demonstrate

# convert dictionary string to dictionary
# using json.loads()
import json
  
# initializing string 
test_string = '{"Nikhil" : 1, "Akshat" : 2, "Akash" : 3}' 
  
# printing original string 
print("The original string : " + str(test_string))
  
# using json.loads()
# convert dictionary string to dictionary
res = json.loads(test_string)
  
# print result
print("The converted dictionary : " + str(res))

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The converted dictionary : {'Nikhil': 1, 'Akshat': 2, 'Akash': 3}

Method #2 : Using ast.literal_eval()

The above method can also be used to per form a similar conversion. Function safer

than the eval function and can be used for interconversion of all data types other than

dictionar y as well.

# Python3 code to demonstrate

# convert dictionary string to dictionary
# using ast.literal_eval()
import ast
  
# initializing string 
test_string = '{"Nikhil" : 1, "Akshat" : 2, "Akash" : 3}' 
  
# printing original string 
print("The original string : " + str(test_string))
  
# using ast.literal_eval()
# convert dictionary string to dictionary
res = ast.literal_eval(test_string)
  
# print result
print("The converted dictionary : " + str(res))

Output :

The original string : {"Nikhil" : 1, "Akshat" : 2, "Akash" : 3}

The converted dictionary : {'Nikhil': 1, 'Akshat': 2, 'Akash': 3}

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