python bytes to dict
# credit to the Stack Overflow user in the source linnk
# Python3
import ast
byte_str = b"{'one': 1, 'two': 2}"
dict_str = byte_str.decode("UTF-8")
my_data = ast.literal_eval(dict_str)
print(repr(my_data))
>>> {'one': 1, 'two': 2}