How to convert raw javascript object to python dictionary?

Question

When screen-scraping some website, I extract data from

Answer 1

This will likely not work everywhere, but as a start, here's a simple regex that should convert the keys into quoted strings so you can pass into json.loads. Or is this what you're already doing?

In[70] : quote_keys_regex = r'([\{\s,])(\w+)(:)'

In[71] : re.sub(quote_keys_regex, r'\1"\2"\3', js_obj)
Out[71]: '{"x":1, "y":2, "z":3}'

In[72] : js_obj_2 = '{x:1, y:2, z:{k:3,j:2}}'

Int[73]: re.sub(quote_keys_regex, r'\1"\2"\3', js_obj_2)
Out[73]: '{"x":1, "y":2, "z":{"k":3,"j":2}}'