I have the following string:
txt = "{\'legs_a\': 1,\'legs_b\': 0,\'score_a\': 304,\'score_b\': 334,\'turn\': B,\'i\': 2,\'z\': 19}"
When I print it, I see the below output in my console
{'legs_a': 1,'legs_b': 0,'score_a': 304,'score_b': 334,'turn': B,'i': 2,'z': 19}
I want to make a dictionary of the string by using ast.literal_eval()
import ast
d = ast.literal_eval(txt)
This yields the following error:
{ValueError}malformed node or string: <_ast.Name object at
0x7fb8b8ab4fa0>
Please explain what’s going wrong? How can I make a dictionary from the string? Thanks
>Solution :
B is an undefined variable or unquoted string.
try:
txt = "{\'legs_a\': 1,\'legs_b\': 0,\'score_a\': 304,\'score_b\': 334,\'turn\': \'B\',\'i\': 2,\'z\': 19}"
d = ast.literal_eval(txt)
print(d)
Output:
{'legs_a': 1, 'legs_b': 0, 'score_a': 304, 'score_b': 334, 'turn': 'B', 'i': 2, 'z': 19}
Note if you wanted to deserialze the JSON string using json.loads() function then you would need to replace single quotes with double quotes.
data = json.loads(txt.replace("'", '"'))