Read a dictionary of strings from a file

def read_dict_from_file(file_path):
    """
    Read a dictionary of strings from a file
    """
    with open(file_path) as file:
        lines = file.read().splitlines()

    obj = {}
    for line in lines:
        key, value = line.split(':', maxsplit=1)
        obj[key] = eval(value)

    return obj