# Destructuring syntax in julia 1.7

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/destructuring-syntax-in-julia-1-7/68236>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** destructuring\
**Created:** [September 15, 2021, 11:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/destructuring-syntax-in-julia-1-7/68236 "2021-09-15T23:01:36Z")\
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Wanted to destructure a dictionary, found this convenient:

```julia
mydict = Dict(:x=>1, :y=>2, :z=>3)
(; x, y) = NamedTuple(mydict)

```

Unfortunately it works only for dictionaries whose keys are symbols, `Dict{Symbol, T}`. It doesn’t work for a dictionary whose keys are strings `Dict{String, T}` (as is frequently the case for config files, etc.).

This can be addressed by overloading `NamedTuple` to convert string keys to symbols:

```julia
NamedTuple(d::Dict{String,T} where T) = NamedTuple{Tuple(Symbol(k) for k ∈ keys(d))}(v for v ∈ values(d))

```

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