load fixtures

oxdjango/fields.py

@@ -12,8 +12,10 @@ class DictField(models.TextField):
         """Convert our string value to python after we load it from the DB"""
         if isinstance(value, dict):
             return value
-
+        try:
             value = json.loads(value)
+        except: #this is required to load fixtures
+            value = eval(value)
         assert isinstance(value, dict)
         return value
 
@@ -23,7 +25,6 @@ class DictField(models.TextField):
         value = json.dumps(value)
         return super(DictField, self).get_db_prep_save(value)
 
-
 class TupleField(models.TextField):
     """TupleField is a textfield that contains JSON-serialized tuples."""
 
@@ -35,7 +36,10 @@ class TupleField(models.TextField):
         if isinstance(value, tuple):
             return value
 
+        try:
             value = json.loads(value)
+        except: #this is required to load fixtures
+            value = eval(value)
         assert isinstance(value, list)
         return tuple(value)