How to convert bytes type to dictionary [duplicate]

Question

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 code 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}