How to convert an OrderedDict into a regular dict in python3

Question

I am struggling with the following problem: I want to convert an OrderedDict like this:

OrderedDict([(\'method\', \'constant\'), (\'data\', \'1.         


        

Answer 1

A version that handles nested dictionaries and iterables but does not use the json module. Nested dictionaries become dict, nested iterables become list, everything else is returned unchanged (including dictionary keys and strings/bytes/bytearrays).

def recursive_to_dict(obj):
    try:
        if hasattr(obj, "split"):    # is string-like
            return obj
        elif hasattr(obj, "items"):  # is dict-like
            return {k: recursive_to_dict(v) for k, v in obj.items()}
        else:                        # is iterable
            return [recursive_to_dict(e) for e in obj]
    except TypeError:                # return everything else
        return obj