i have the following string, need to turn it into a list without u'':
my_str = "[{u'name': u'squats', u'wrs': [[u'99', 8]], u'id': 2}]" i can get rid of " by using
import ast str_w_quotes = ast.literal_eval(my_str) then i do:
import json json.dumps(str_w_quotes) and get
[{\"id\": 2, \"name\": \"squats\", \"wrs\": [[\"55\", 9]]}] Is there a way to get rid of backslashes? the goal is:
[{"id": 2, "name": "squats", "wrs": [["55", 9]]}] 4 Answers
This works but doesn't seem too elegant
import json json.dumps(json.JSONDecoder().decode(str_w_quotes)) json.dumps thinks that the " is part of a the string, not part of the json formatting.
import json json.dumps(json.load(str_w_quotes)) should give you:
[{"id": 2, "name": "squats", "wrs": [["55", 9]]}] You don't dump your string as JSON, rather you load your string as JSON.
import json json.loads(str_w_quotes) Your string is already in JSON format. You do not want to dump it as JSON again.
>>> "[{\"id\": 2, \"name\": \"squats\", \"wrs\": [[\"55\", 9]]}]".replace('\\"',"\"") '[{"id": 2, "name": "squats", "wrs": [["55", 9]]}]' note that you could just do this on the original string
>>> "[{u'name': u'squats', u'wrs': [[u'99', 8]], u'id': 2}]".replace("u\'","\'") "[{'name': 'squats', 'wrs': [['99', 8]], 'id': 2}]" 
