Read plain python object from file

Question

Our client provided us with text files containing the following data:

{'op-code-gtm-gtm2-count': {'Label': 'op-code-gtm-gtm2-count', 'Datapoints': [{'Timestamp': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 25, 17, 10, tzinfo=tzlocal()), 'Sum': 79792.0,....

Note that it's a default python object, and not a json one (else we'd be using json.load(file)).
Any suggestions on how we could create a python object from reading this file ?

Answer 1

A friend suggested this solution:

import datetime
from tzlocal import get_localzone as tzlocal

with open('myfile.txt') as f:
   st = f.read()
   data = eval(st)

Hope this helps!