code: def shell_safe_json_parse(json_or_dict_string, preserve_order=False):
      
      try:
          if not preserve_order:
              return json.loads(json_or_dict_string)
          from collections import OrderedDict
          return json.loads(json_or_dict_string, object_pairs_hook=OrderedDict)
      except ValueError:
          import ast
          return ast.literal_eval(json_or_dict_string)
docs: Allows the passing of JSON or Python dictionary strings. This is needed because certain
      JSON strings in CMD shell are not received in main's argv. This allows the user to specify
      the alternative notation, which does not have this problem (but is technically not JSON).