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I have string objects that I believe are the result of a JSON.stringify() call in javascript. The strings look something like this when printed from my python script:

'{hashtags=[], 
  urls=[{url=https://t.com/H9W2D8GojG, 
         expanded_url=https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1202511173138169856,
         display_url=twitter.com/i/web/status/1…, 
         indices=[117, 140]}
        ]
 }'

I can't just call json.loads() on this string because of the lack of inner quotation marks. Is there any way to turn this into a dictionary without manually parsing it?

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    What you've shown will never be the result of calling JSON.stringify. JSON.stringify might produce this, if the input to it is a string, but it will never produce what's shown in the question. Commented Dec 10, 2019 at 18:34
  • Does this answer your question? How to parse somewhat wrong JSON with Python? Commented Dec 10, 2019 at 18:38
  • @T.J.Crowder: They did say they printed it in Python, which would strip the outer quotation marks. It's likely they JSON.stringify-ied a string of pseudo-JSON. Commented Dec 10, 2019 at 18:42
  • @T.J.Crowder I see. I believe JSON.stringify is being used at some point, the string is also saved to an sql database, which I'm reading from. More might be happening behind the scenes, but what I have access to is the string as I showed it. Commented Dec 10, 2019 at 18:42
  • @luis.parravicini I just tried the answers shown there, but none of them worked. Commented Dec 10, 2019 at 18:43
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