Iterate through parts of a string

Question

I have string in the form

[3339:1.6101369,1062:1.5,5751:1.5,6376:1.5,  ...  ]

I want to iterate through the comma separated key-value pairs. What is the best or shortest way to do this?

Answer 1

d = ast.literal_eval('{' + s[1:-1] + '}')