# Convert Param Object to PyDictionary **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** scripting, perspective\ **Created:** [December 14, 2022, 3:46am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/convert-param-object-to-pydictionary/67590 "2022-12-14T03:46:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
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`dict(self.view.params.PopupParams)` might work; if it's not a deep dictionary. If you do need a deep copy, you could try the approaches mentioned here: > [@Copy dictionary and modify it without affecting the original](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/copy-dictionary-and-modify-it-without-affecting-the-original/62297/9): > > As @bkarabinchak.psi pointed out even though the structure “looks” like a dict it isn’t actually a dict. Actually the type of a perspective property when accessed from a script is:[com.inductiveautomation.perspective.gateway.script.PropertyTreeScriptWrapper.ObjectWrapper](https://files.inductiveautomation.com/sdk/javadoc/ignition81/8.1.1/com/inductiveautomation/perspective/gateway/script/PropertyTreeScriptWrapper.ObjectWrapper.html). Thus deepcopy chokes when it runs into an object that it doesn’t know how to handle. If you need a true deepcopy, then you have couple of options. Write a function which recursively loops through the structure and correctl… Or you could use [Ignition Extensions'](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-extensions-convenience-utilities-for-advanced-users/64615) `system.util.deepCopy`. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/convert-param-object-to-pydictionary/67590)._