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michaeljohn1022
michaeljohn1022

Reputation: 19

Python convert byte to string dictionary as efficiently as possible

I'm trying to efficiently (quickly) convert a byte file into a dictionary. So far I've decoded it to str, stripped the { } and made that into a dictionary. But I still get the single string quotes ' so I cannot call the dict by keys. How do I do this?

response = b'{"address":"[email protected]","username":"david","domain":"gmail.com","md5Hash":"f3c52e5ef3d2b471d0ef51c66c21d10c","suggestion":"","validFormat":true,"deliverable":false,"fullInbox":false,"hostExists":true,"catchAll":false,"gravatar":false,"role":false,"disposable":false,"free":true}'

Steps I took so far:

print(response.decode("utf-8"))

{"address":"[email protected]","username":"david","domain":"gmail.com","md5Hash":"f3c52e5ef3d2b471d0ef51c66c21d10c","suggestion":"","validFormat":true,"deliverable":false,"fullInbox":false,"hostExists":true,"catchAll":false,"gravatar":false,"role":false,"disposable":false,"free":true}



print({response.decode("utf-8").replace("}","").replace("{","")})

{'"address":"[email protected]","username":"david","domain":"gmail.com","md5Hash":"f3c52e5ef3d2b471d0ef51c66c21d10c","suggestion":"","validFormat":true,"deliverable":false,"fullInbox":false,"hostExists":true,"catchAll":false,"gravatar":false,"role":false,"disposable":false,"free":true'}

But I still cannot call the dict by keys due to the '.
I Need this to be quick, low on resources.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1416

Answers (1)

astroboy
astroboy

Reputation: 1078

Like @juanpa.arrivillaga said just use the json module.

Here:

import json
d = json.loads(response)

Now the value of d is your decoded dict.

Again like @juanpa.arrivillaga said there is no need to use .decode(), json.loads() can operate on bytes.

Upvotes: 2

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