utf8dict

Recursively iterates through a dictionary and decodes any keys that are byte strings into the specified encoding.

def utf8dict(
    d: dict,
    encoding: string = 'utf-8'
) - > dict

Recursively decodes byte-string keys in a dictionary into strings using the specified encoding. Use this to normalize dictionary keys when processing data from sources that return raw bytes instead of text.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
d	dict	The source dictionary containing keys that may need decoding from bytes to strings.
encoding	string = 'utf-8'	The character encoding used to decode byte-string keys, defaulting to UTF-8.

Returns

Type	Description
dict	A new dictionary where all byte-string keys have been decoded into strings, while non-byte keys and all values remain unchanged.