import json
array = '{"fruits": ["apple", "banana", "orange"]}'
data = json.loads(array)
fruits_list = data['fruits']
print fruits_list
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
Source: Stackoverflow.com