string to OrderedDict conversion in python
ordereddictionary, parsing, python, string
Solution
You could store and load it with pickle
import cPickle as pickle
# store:
with open("filename.pickle", "w") as fp:
pickle.dump(ordered_dict, fp)
# read:
with open("filename.pickle") as fp:
ordered_dict = pickle.load(fp)
type(ordered_dict) # <class 'collections.OrderedDict'>
Problem
i have created a python Ordered Dictionary by importing collections and stored it in a file named 'filename.txt'. the file content looks like ``` OrderedDict([(7, 0), (6, 1), (5, 2), (4, 3)]) ``` i need to make use of this OrderedDict from another program. i do it as ``` myfile = open('filename.txt','r') mydict = myfile.read() ``` i need to get 'mydict' as of Type ``` <class 'collections.OrderedDict'> ``` but here, it comes out to be of type 'str'. is there any way in python to convert a string type to OrderedDict type? using python 2.7