Creating a dictionary from a string

Question

I have a string in the form of:

s = \'A - 13, B - 14, C - 29, M - 99\'

and so on (the length varies). What is the easiest way to create a d

Answer 1

Those who came here with following problem :

convert string a = '{"a":1,"b":2}' to dictionary object.

you can simply use a = eval(a) to get a as object of dictionary from a string object.