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Reputation: 16536

Parse a unicode string in python to a dictionary

I'm sure that this is both extremely easy and a combination of other questions on SO but I can't find the right answer.

I have a unicode string: u"word1 word2 word3..." It will always be in the same format. I want to parse it into a dictionary that will always have the same keys:

"key1:word1 key2:word2 key3:word3..."

How do I do this?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 462

Answers (1)

Óscar López
Óscar López

Reputation: 236140

Try this:

keys = ['key1', 'key2', 'key3']
words = u'word1 word2 word3'
vals = words.split()

d = dict(zip(keys, vals))

And then, if you want to retrieve the key/value pairs in a string like the one in your example:

' '.join(sorted(k + ':' + v for k,v in d.items()))

Upvotes: 2

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