code: def readPlistFromString(data):
      return loads(
          tobytes(data, encoding="utf-8"), use_builtin_types=False
      )
  
imports: from fontTools.misc.plistlib import dump, dumps, load, loads
  from fontTools.misc.textTools import tobytes
  from fontTools.ufoLib.utils import deprecated
label_desc: Use image node_id 3 for calling a global function with example usage: readPlistFromString(data) and returns: loads