Simple way to convert a string to a dictionary

Question

What is the simplest way to convert a string of keyword=values to a dictionary, for example the following string:

name=\"John Smith\", age=34, height=173.2,          


        

Answer 1

This works for me:

# get all the items
matches = re.findall(r'\w+=".+?"', s) + re.findall(r'\w+=[\d.]+',s)

# partition each match at '='
matches = [m.group().split('=', 1) for m in matches]

# use results to make a dict
d = dict(matches)