Re: Create list/dict from string

2010/1/19 Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de>: > Both eval() and json.loads() will do. eval() is dangerous as it allows the > user to run arbitrary python code. Something like might be worth a look too. -- Cheers, Simon B. -- http://mail.python.org/mailm

Re: Create list/dict from string

Can't you just use the dict() built-in function like this: dict({"action_name": "action_1", "val": "asdf"}) Of course if the list is not properly formed, this will fail. But I guess you have thought of that already. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:33 AM, SoxFan44 wrote: > I was wondering if there w

Re: Create list/dict from string

SoxFan44 wrote: > I was wondering if there was a way to create a list (which in this > case would contain several dicts) based on a string passed in by the > user. Security is not an issue. Basically I want to be able to have > the user pass in using optparse: > --actions=[{"action_name": "actio