get python dictionary from string containing key value pairs

by 
>>> r = "name: srek age :24 description: blah blah"
>>> import re
>>> regex = re.compile(r"\b(\w+)\s*:\s*([^:]*)(?=\s+\w+\s*:|$)")
>>> d = dict(regex.findall(r))
>>> d
{'age': '24', 'name': 'srek', 'description': 'blah blah'}

Explanation:

\b           # Start at a word boundary
(\w+)        # Match and capture a single word (1+ alnum characters)
\s*:\s*      # Match a colon, optionally surrounded by whitespace
([^:]*)      # Match any number of non-colon characters
(?=          # Make sure that we stop when the following can be matched:
 \s+\w+\s*:  #  the next dictionary key
|            # or
 $           #  the end of the string
)            # End of lookahead

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