Json Like String With Unicode To Valid Json

I get a string which resembles JSON and I'm trying to convert it to valid JSON using python. It looks like this example, but the real data gets very long: {u'key':[{ u'key':

Solution 1:

You can use literal_eval from the ast module for this.

ast.literal_eval(yourString)

You can then convert this Object back to JSON.

Solution 2:

JSON spec only allows javascript data (true, false for booleans, null, undefined for None properties, etc) The string of this question, it's an python object, so as @florian-dreschsler says, you must use literal_eval from the ast module

>>> import ast
>>> json_string = """
... {u'key':[{
...        u'key':u'object',
...        u'something':u'd\xfcabc',
...        u'more':u'\u2023more',
...        u'boolean':True,  #this property fails with json module
...        u'null':None,     #this property too
...     }]
... }
... """>>> ast.literal_eval(json_string)
{u'key': [{u'boolean': True, u'null': None, u'something': u'd\xfcabc', u'key': u'object', u'more': u'\u2023more'}]}