typecasting: a string object to a dictionary object

[dont bother]

Here am I,
On the border...if someone can help me, it would be
nice:

I have a string:

feature_vector. It is of the form
<index: value, index: value, index: value>

I want to make this string into a dictionary so that I
can apply .keys() method

If I apply .keys() method straight away I get this
error:

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'keys'

Is there a way in which I can convert/typecast my
string thing to dictionary ??

Thax in advance
Dont



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[midtoad]

Re: typecasting: a string object to a dictionary object

dont bother wrote:
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> I have a string:
>
> feature_vector. It is of the form
> <index: value, index: value, index: value>
>
> I want to make this string into a dictionary so that I
> can apply .keys() method[/color]

okay, here's a solution, assuming that your < and > are part of the string.
If not, remove the line where you take a slice. I'm sure that there are
more Pythonic solutions, but this works...

---
import string

# define a test string
s1 = "<name1: value1, name2: value2, name3: value3>"
# get rid of the < and > by taking a slice
s1 = s1[1:-1]
# split string at the commas
s2 = string.split(s1 ,',')
mydict = {}
for item in s2:
a,b = string.split(it em,":")
mydict[a] = b
print mydict[a]
print "Dictionary is: ", mydict
---

cheers
Stewart

[Byron Morgan]

Re: typecasting: a string object to a dictionary object

Here is one way:

a = {}
feature_vector = '1:x 2:y 3:z'
for each in feature_vector. split():
a[each.split(':')[0]]=each.split(':' )[1]


Byron Morgan


dont bother <dontbotherworl d@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.3 40.1079150274.1 9534.python-list@python.org >...[color=blue]
> Here am I,
> On the border...if someone can help me, it would be
> nice:
>
> I have a string:
>
> feature_vector. It is of the form
> <index: value, index: value, index: value>
>
> I want to make this string into a dictionary so that I
> can apply .keys() method
>
> If I apply .keys() method straight away I get this
> error:
>
> AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'keys'
>
> Is there a way in which I can convert/typecast my
> string thing to dictionary ??
>
> Thax in advance
> Dont
>
>
>
> _______________ _______________ ____
> Do you Yahoo!?
> Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam
> http://mail.yahoo.com[/color]

[Garry Knight]

Re: typecasting: a string object to a dictionary object

In message <Dlw4c.789400$X %5.393213@pd7tw 2no>, midtoad wrote:
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> s2 = string.split(s1 ,',')[/color]
....[color=blue]
> a,b = string.split(it em,":")[/color]
....

Some further processing will probably be necessary. On my system (Python 2.3
under Mandrake Linux) your code produces the following:

Dictionary is: {' name2': ' value2', ' name3': ' value3', 'name1': '
value1'}

In other words, it leaves extra spaces in all values and in all keys except
'name1'. Putting the following lines after the a,b = string.split(it em,":")
will cure that.

a = a.strip()
b = b.strip()

This can be shortened to: a,b = a.strip(),b.str ip()
Or, if you're not bothered about doing the 'print mydict[a]' you could
shorten the code by ignoring the above and putting the strip() calls in the
assignment statement:

mydict[a.strip()] = b.strip()

In my opinion, the first method is the best as it makes it very obvious
what's going on.

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