tocode

This is a library that can convert the strings to code and return the literal eval of that, it will convert strings which contain:

• lists
• tuples
• dictionaries
• sets into the python eval.

Overview

The most important thing in this library that make it unique is:
if your strings don't have any quotation no worries it will add quotations for you!

example

before:

! "{'this': 5, (Alex, Daniel): are good boys, (5, 4): 8.5}" 

after:

+ "{'this': 5, ('Alex', 'Daniel'): 'are good boys', (5, 4): 8.5}

Usage

In the following paragraphs, I am going to describe how you can get and use tocode for your own projects.

Getting it

To download tocode library, either fork this github repo or simply use Pypi via pip.

$ pip install tocode

Using it

tocode was programmed with ease-of-use in mind. First, import literal_eval from tocode.

for more exact usage documents you can see the example files here

import tocode

# Example:
my_array = " ['Hello', Goodbye my friend, 2.5, (4, ok), {one: 450, 'two': 12}] "
my_array = tocode.literal_eval(my_array, no_string_quotation=True)
"""
  if some of the strings don't have quotation set `no_string_quotation` to True
  otherwise, set it to False or leave it.
"""
# will return the list into a python list

output:

['Hello', 'Goodbye my friend', 2.5, (4, 'ok'), {'one': 450, 'two': 12}]

Support

Supported versions of python for this library are as follow:

• Python v3.4
• Python v3.5
• Python v3.6
• Python v3.7
• Python v3.8
• Python v3.9
• Python v3.10

License

This project is under BST license read it here:

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