http - Python HTTPServer: How to convert the extracted post data to python dictionary

Question

Hey so I have a simple basic python HTTPServer ,now from the post request I have sent in some data now when I extract the data I get the following out below exactly as is:

b'{"name":"john",  "lastname":"Doe"}'

This is how I am extracting the given data:

content_len = int(self.headers.get('Content-Length'))
post_body = self.rfile.read(content_len)
print(post_body)

Is the a way of converting the output to a proper dictionary?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65648242/python-httpserver-how-to-convert-the-extracted-post-data-to-python-dictionary

Answer 1

Try this:

import ast
ast.literal_eval(b'{"name":"john",  "lastname":"Doe"}'.decode("utf-8"))

literal_eval evaluates strings into the pythonic equivalent of their content. The decode is needed in order to turn bytes into str.