This is following the usual Python rules for string escapes, which brings us to... JSON escaping vs. Python string literal escaping. Sometimes people get confused when trying to test code that involves parsing JSON, and supply input as an incorrect string literal in the Python source code. This especially happens when trying to test code that ...

json.dumps() is much more than just making a string out of a Python object, it would always produce a valid JSON string (assuming everything inside the object is serializable) following the Type Conversion Table. For instance, if one of the values is None, the str() would produce an invalid JSON which cannot be loaded:

It evals to a dictionary tho, which can easily be loaded/dumped as JSON (and of course you might need a custom json encoder function if your dictionary has none json values). – kakhkAtion Commented Apr 25, 2018 at 19:08

Dec 31, 2016 · Regardless of the parsing language, python, javascript, php and so on, any json string or subset of a json string that has objects wrapped in [brackets] will be an array, and will need to be handled in a similar (language specific) fashion.

With a JSON string such as '{"lat":444, "lon":555}', json.loads() creates a dictionary, so to get its values, you do so as you would get the values in a dictionary. Iteration over a dictionary is an iteration over its keys ( for j in data: is the same as for j in data.keys(): ); however, to iterate over its values, you need to use .values() :

Mar 24, 2020 · The top answers show seemingly two different ways to parse a json response into a Python object but they are essentially the same. response.json() differs in two places: it uses simplejson (which is the externally maintained development version of the json library included with Python ) if it's installed in your environment, but uses the built ...

May 10, 2016 · I want to convert JSON data into a Python object. I receive JSON data objects from the Facebook API, which I want to store in my database. My current View in Django (Python) (request.POST contains the JSON): response = request.POST user = FbApiUser(user_id = response['id']) user.name = response['name'] user.username = response['username'] user ...

Jan 28, 2019 · well, the incoming message is a list of string with json format and if I try to use json.load I have an error: ´AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'read'´ – IoT user Commented Jan 29, 2019 at 8:57

Feb 27, 2023 · ast.literal_eval() from the Python standard library ast may be used to parse json strings as well. It's especially useful if the string looks like a json but is actually a string representation of a Python object. In such cases, json.loads won't work but ast.literal_eval works.

Sep 5, 2014 · How to parse json string in python? 2. Parsing JSON in Python. 1. Parsing JSON content with Python. 1.