hi, I have strings coming in with this format:
'[one=two, three=four five, six, seven=eight]'
and I want to create from that string, this dictionary:
{'one':'two', 'three':'four five', 'six':True, 'seven':'eight'}
These are option strings, with each key-value pair separated by commas.
Where there is a value, the key-value pair is separated by '='.
This is how I started (where s is the string):
s = s.replace('[','').replace(']','')
s = [x.split('=') for x in s.split(',')]
[['one', 'two'], [' three', 'four five'], [' six'], [' seven', 'eight']]
I know I can iterate and strip each item, fixing single-element keys as I go.
I just wondered if I'm missing something more elegant. If it wasn't for the
leading spaces and the boolean key, the dict() constructor would have been
sweet.
thanks for any ideas,
--Tim
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