python - How to convert bytes type to dictionary?

Question

I have a bytes type object like this:

b"{'one': 1, 'two': 2}"

I need to get the dictionary from that using python code. I am converting it into string and then converting into dictionary as follows.

string = dictn.decode("utf-8")
print(type(string))
>> <class 'str'>
d = dict(toks.split(":") for toks in string.split(",") if toks)

But I am getting the below error:

------> d = dict(toks.split(":") for toks in string.split(",") if toks)
TypeError: 'bytes' object is not callable

Answer 1

I think a decode is also required to get a proper dict.

a= b"{'one': 1, 'two': 2}"
ast.literal_eval(a.decode('utf-8'))
**Output:** {'one': 1, 'two': 2}

The accepted answer yields

a= b"{'one': 1, 'two': 2}"
ast.literal_eval(repr(a))
**output:**  b"{'one': 1, 'two': 2}"

The literal_eval hasn't done that properly with many of my codes so I personally prefer to use json module for this

import json
a= b"{'one': 1, 'two': 2}"
json.loads(a.decode('utf-8'))
**Output:** {'one': 1, 'two': 2}