Deserialize Object in String to Python Dict

Question

So I'm using apache solr and python, when I send data in the form a dict/obj it is stored and received as

{
  "array": [
    "{key: value}, {key: value}, {key: value}",
    "{key: value}, {key: value}, {key: value}",
    "{key: value}, {key: value}, {key: value}"
  ],
}

is it possible to convert that python string into a python dict

NB the values I'm expecting are either string or float

Update: I decided to use the built-in JSON encoder to serialize each instance of a nested python dictionary and send that to the SOLR instance, finally when I'm retreving the data I just deserialize the already encoded json string

Answer 1

I decided to use the built-in JSON encoder to serialize each instance of a nested python dictionary and send that to the SOLR instance, finally when I'm retreving the data I just deserialize the already encoded json string

import json

{
  "array": [
    json.loads({key: value, key: value, key: value}),
  ],
}