Convert a string representation of a set of tuples to a dictionary

Question

I have a long string representing a set of tuples:

my_string = '{(76034,0),(91316,0),(221981,768),(459889,0),(646088,0)}'

How can I convert it to the following dict?

expected_result = {76034: 0, 91316: 0, 221981: 768, 459889: 0, 646088: 0}

Answer 1

Try using ast.literal_eval:

import ast
s = '{(76034,0),(91316,0),(221981,768),(459889,0),(646088,0)}'
print(dict(ast.literal_eval('[' + s.strip('{}') + ']')))

Output:

{76034: 0, 91316: 0, 221981: 768, 459889: 0, 646088: 0}