How to convert an OrderedDict into a regular dict in python3

I am struggling with the following problem: I want to convert an OrderedDict like this:

OrderedDict([('method', 'constant'), ('data', '1.225')])

into a regular dict like this:

{'method': 'constant', 'data':1.225}

because I have to store it as string in a database. After the conversion the order is not important anymore, so I can spare the ordered feature anyway.

Thanks for any hint or solutions,

Ben

>>> from collections import OrderedDict
>>> OrderedDict([('method', 'constant'), ('data', '1.225')])
OrderedDict([('method', 'constant'), ('data', '1.225')])
>>> dict(OrderedDict([('method', 'constant'), ('data', '1.225')]))
{'data': '1.225', 'method': 'constant'}
>>>

However, to store it in a database it'd be much better to convert it to a format such as JSON or Pickle. With Pickle you even preserve the order!

Even though this is a year old question, I would like to say that using dict will not help if you have an ordered dict within the ordered dict. The simplest way that could convert those recursive ordered dict will be

import json
from collections import OrderedDict
input_dict = OrderedDict([('method', 'constant'), ('recursive', OrderedDict([('m', 'c')]))])
output_dict = json.loads(json.dumps(input_dict))
print output_dict