Creating dictionary from space separated key=value string in Python

Question

I have string as follows:

s = \'key1=1234 key2=\"string with space\" key3=\"SrtingWithoutSpace\"\'

I want to convert in to a dictionary as

Answer 1

Try this:

>>> import re
>>> dict(re.findall(r'(\S+)=(".*?"|\S+)', s))
{'key3': '"SrtingWithoutSpace"', 'key2': '"string with space"', 'key1': '1234'}

If you also want to strip the quotes:

>>> {k:v.strip('"') for k,v in re.findall(r'(\S+)=(".*?"|\S+)', s)}