how to create a dictionary from a set of properly formatted tuples in python -

is there simple way create dictionary list of formatted tuples. e.g. if like:

    d={"responsestatus":"success","sessionid":"01234","userid":2000004904} 

this creates dictionary called d. however, if want create dictionary string contains same string, can't that

    res=<some command returns {"responsestatus":"success","sessionid":"01234","userid":2000004904}>     print res     # returns {"responsestatus":"success","sessionid":"01234","userid":2000004904}     d=dict(res) 

this throws error says:

    valueerror: dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 required  

i strongly suspect have json on hands.

import json  d = json.loads('{"responsestatus":"success","sessionid":"01234","userid":2000004904}') 

would give want.