Hello Amit,
> Need a python trick, if it exists:
>
> I have a file that stores key, value in following format
> --
> "v1" : "k1",
> "v2" : "k2"
> --
>
> Is there a way to directly load this file as dictionary in python. I
> could do (foreach line in file, split by ":" and then do dictionary
> insert). Wondering, if some python built-in function can just read a
> valid dictionary-file and load it?
def load_as_dict(filename):
return eval("{" + open(filename).read() + "}")
Note that this is a very big security hole.
HTH,
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