Convert a string into dictionary

Question

I have a .js file with the following content:

AppSettings = {
               projectName:'myproject',
               url: 'https://www.google.com',
               appKey: 'k2y-myproject_124439_18111',
               newsKey: '',
               version: moment().format('YYMMDD_HHmmss'),
               mixpanelToken: '08e97bef3930f330037d9z6t56395060'
              };

Which I would like to convert it into a python dictionary that I can access as follows

>>> print(data['AppSettings']['url']
>>> 'https://www.google.com'

What is the best way to achieve this?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24027589/how-to-convert-raw-javascript-object-to-python-dictionary — chakradhar kasturi, Oct 12 '17 at 06:23
Here this a good example on how to [parse-json](http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/scenarios/json/#parsing-json) — copser, Oct 12 '17 at 06:39
js files are for *javascript*.. where does python come into it? — Sayse, Oct 12 '17 at 08:57

Van Peer · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-13T06:49:43.473

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Code

d = {'AppSettings':{}}
with open('tt.js', 'r') as f:
    next(f)
    for line in f:
        splitLine = line.strip().replace(',','').split(':')
        d['AppSettings'][splitLine[0]] = "".join(splitLine[1:])

d['AppSettings']['url']=d['AppSettings']['url'].replace('htt‌ps//','https://')
d['AppSettings'].pop("}", None) #remove last item "}" from dict

print(d['AppSettings']['url'])
print(d['AppSettings']['newsKey'])
print(d['AppSettings']['appKey'])
print(d['AppSettings']['version'])
print(d['AppSettings']['mixpanelToken'])

Sample output

'https://www.google.com'
''
'k2y-myproject_124439_18111'
moment().format('YYMMDD_HHmmss')
'08e97bef3930f330037d9z6t56395060'

edited Oct 13 '17 at 06:49

answered Oct 12 '17 at 07:25

Van Peer

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There is an issue here, that it strips the ':' from the url. – labjunky Oct 13 '17 at 06:41
thanks for pointing out.. `d['AppSettings']['url']=d['AppSettings']['url'].replace('https//','https://')` – Van Peer Oct 13 '17 at 06:48

Convert a string into dictionary

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