parsing a dictionary from a string

2006-12-15 Thread Benjamin Georgi
Hello list, I could use some help extracting the keys/values of a list of dictionaries from a string that is just the str() representation of the list (the problem is related to some flat file format I'm using for file IO). Example: >>> s = str(dict_list) >>> s '[{0: [2], 1: []}, {0: [], 1:

Re: parsing a dictionary from a string

2006-12-18 Thread Benjamin Georgi
Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Benjamin Georgi wrote: > >> I could use some help extracting the keys/values of a list of >> dictionaries from a string that is just the str() representation of the >> list (the problem is related to some flat file format I'm using fo