How to pass dictionary(hash value) as command line argument to python script?

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Here I m passing dictionary as command line argument to python script

python post_request.py {“doctype”:“Address”,“address_title”:“Mr.Machha”,“address_line1”:“Vijayanagar”,“city”:“BangLORE”,“phone”:“012345678”}

And in my python script(post_request.py) I m getting

data= sys.argv[1]

print data
{doctype:Address,address_title:Mr.Machha,address_line1:Vijayanagar,city:BangLORE,phone:012345678}

Here I m not getting dictionary as I m passing ie

{“doctype”:“Address”,“address_title”:“Mr.Machha”,“address_line1”:“Vijayanagar”,“city”:“BangLORE”,“phone”:“012345678”}

How to get dictionary as mentioned above in my script?

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Hi, through the command line you can not pass python objects like dictionaries,lists,… Of course you can try some thing like this by importing json module :

import json

data=json.loads(argv[1])

Reference : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18006161/how-to-pass-dictionary-as-command-line-argument-to-python-script

And one more thing, you can ask these type of questions in http://stackoverflow.com instead of codechef

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Thank You for your link.

I already tried that link but I m not getting out put as I want ie {“doctype”:“Address”,“address_title”:“Mr.Machha”,“address_line1”:“Vijayanagar”,“city”:“BangLORE”,“phone”:“012345678”}
that’s why i asked this question in codechef.
I m new to python so your help will be appreciated.

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data={“doctype”:“Address”,“address_title”:“Mr.Machha”,“address_line1”:“Vijayanagar”,“city”:“BangLORE”,“phone”:“012345678”}
print data

output
{‘city’: ‘BangLORE’, ‘address_line1’: ‘Vijayanagar’, ‘doctype’: ‘Address’, ‘address_title’: ‘Mr.Machha’, ‘phone’: ‘012345678’}

if your new in python means, http://www.codecademy.com/ you will get overall idea about python