Convert JSON array to Python list
PythonJsonListPython Problem Overview
import json
array = '{"fruits": ["apple", "banana", "orange"]}'
data = json.loads(array)
That is my JSON array, but I would want to convert all the values in the fruits string to a Python list. What would be the correct way of doing this?
Python Solutions
Solution 1 - Python
import json
array = '{"fruits": ["apple", "banana", "orange"]}'
data = json.loads(array)
print data['fruits']
# the print displays:
# [u'apple', u'banana', u'orange']
You had everything you needed. data
will be a dict, and data['fruits']
will be a list
Solution 2 - Python
http://ideone.com/8qE6N">Tested on Ideone.
import json
array = '{"fruits": ["apple", "banana", "orange"]}'
data = json.loads(array)
fruits_list = data['fruits']
print fruits_list
Solution 3 - Python
data
will return you a string representation of a list, but it is actually still a string. Just check the type of data
with type(data)
. That means if you try using indexing on this string representation of a list as such data['fruits'][0]
, it will return you "[" as it is the first character of data['fruits']
You can do json.loads(data['fruits'])
to convert it back to a Python list so that you can interact with regular list indexing. There are 2 other ways you can convert it back to a Python list suggested here