Stringify JSON -> Python Server gets dict with key which is stringified string

json, python, string

Solution

Python has a built-in JSON parsing library. Adding `import json` provides basic JSON parsing functionality, which can be used as follows:

import json
personString = "{'{id:'E1',firstname:'Peter',... " # This would contain your JSON string
person = json.loads( personString ) # This will parse the string into a native Python dictionary, be sure to add some error handling should a parsing error occur

person['firstname'] # Yields 'Peter'
person['activities'] # Yields a list with the activities.

More information here: http://docs.python.org/2/library/json.html

Problem

``` var jsData = { id: 'E1', firstname: 'Peter', lastname: 'Funny', project: { id: 'P1' }, activities: [ { id: 'A1' }, { id: 'A2' } ]}; var jsonData = JSON.stringify(jsData); $('#click').click(function(){ $.ajax({ url: "test/", type: "POST", data: jsData, dataType: "json", success: function (data){ console.log(data); }, error:function(){$('#text').html('FATAL_ERROR')} }) }) ``` This is the JS-Code and jsData should be send to the Server(Python). On the Server i get something like {'{id:'E1',firstname:'Peter',lastname:'Funny',project: { id: 'P1' },activities: [{ id: 'A1' },{ id: 'A2' }]};':''} Is there a smart way to get the string 'inner dict' out of the 'outer dict' ?!

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