Loading string representation of dictionaries with single quotes in their values as dictionary literals
Solution 1:
In the event that you need to escape those ' characters, I think the re module might help.
import ast
import re
data = "{'name' : 'D'Artagnan'}"
data = re.sub(r"(\w)'(\w)", r"\1\\'\2", data)
print(ast.literal_eval(data))
Should give you a dictionary:
{'name': "D'Artagnan"}