JSON String conversion to Dict

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I'm having trouble converting the below JSON string to type dict. json.loads throws an error because of the two sets of squiggles: {}, {}

test = '{"124074": "0.0944", "124111": "0.0809", "124194": "0.0788"}, {"128213": "0.39", "129043": "0.458", "129054": "0.378"}'

Any thoughts on how I fix this? I need to be able to convert to dict so I can iterate through the keys. Should the JSON string be represented in a different way?

Since that's not valid JSON, it raises the question... is there a bug in whatever generated it? — tdelaney
– tdelaney, Commented Oct 31, 2021 at 5:01

unityJarvis · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-31 07:03:37Z

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Based on the comment from @rv.kvetch, one can get the following result

>>> test = '{"124074": "0.0944", "124111": "0.0809", "124194": "0.0788"}, {"128213": "0.39", "129043": "0.458", "129054": "0.378"}'
>>> dicts = json.loads(f'[{test}]')
>>> dicts
[{'124074': '0.0944', '124111': '0.0809', '124194': '0.0788'}, {'128213': '0.39', '129043': '0.458', '129054': '0.378'}]
>>> dicts[0]
{'124074': '0.0944', '124111': '0.0809', '124194': '0.0788'}
>>> type(dicts[0])
<class 'dict'>

essentially a list of dicts is created instead of a single dict.

answered Oct 31, 2021 at 7:03

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