get python dictionary from string containing key value pairs

Question

i have a python string in the format:

str = \"name: srek age :24 description: blah blah\"

is there any way to convert it to dictionary th

Answer 1

Other variation of Aswini program which display the dictionary in original order

import os
import shutil
mystr = "name: srek age :24 description: blah blah cat: dog stack:overflow"
mlist = mystr.split(':')
dict = {}
list1 = []
list2 = []
try:
 for i,x in enumerate(reversed(mlist)):
    i = i + 1
    slast = mlist[-(i+1)]
    cut = slast.split()
    cut2 = cut[-1]
    list1.insert(i,cut2)
    list2.insert(i,x)
    dict.update({cut2:x})
    mlist[-(i+1)] = " ".join(cut[0:-1])
except:
 pass   

rlist1 = list1[::-1]
rlist2= list2[::-1]

print zip(rlist1, rlist2)

Output

[('name', 'srek'), ('age', '24'), ('description', 'blah blah'), ('cat', 'dog'), ('stack', 'overflow')]