How to Create Dictionary from set of strings Python

Question

I have an output somewhat of the form below. How do I turn it into a dictionary or pandas indexed 2D array?

'{"key1":true,"key2":[1,1,1],"key3":[[["name1",0],["name2",0]],[[1,0][1,0][1,0]]}'

https://docs.python.org/2/library/ast.html#ast.literal_eval – Rockybilly Oct 31 '17 at 02:34 — Rockybilly, Oct 31 '17 at 02:34
That's JSON. Use `json.loads()` to parse it. – Klaus D. Oct 31 '17 at 02:34 — Klaus D., Oct 31 '17 at 02:34

Ajax1234 · Answer 1 · 2017-10-31T02:47:45.507

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You can try this:

import ast
s = '{"key1":true,"key2":[1,1,1],"key3":[[["name1",0],["name2",0]],[[1,0],[1,0],[1,0]]}'
final_data = ast.literal_eval(s)

edited Oct 31 '17 at 02:47

answered Oct 31 '17 at 02:34

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 31 '17 at 02:42

There are missing commas in the last value.

[[1,0][1,0][1,0]]]}'

This should be:

[[1,0],[1,0],[1,0]]]}'

When fixed, you get:

>>> import json
>>> foo = '{"key1":true,"key2":[1,1,1],"key3":[[["name1",0],["name2",0]],[[1,0],[1,0],[1,0]]]}'
>>> json.loads(foo)
{u'key3': [[[u'name1', 0], [u'name2', 0]], [[1, 0], [1, 0], [1, 0]]], u'key2': [1, 1, 1], u'key1': True}
>>>

How to Create Dictionary from set of strings Python

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