On 08/31/2013 07:32 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Anthony Papillion <papill...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On 08/31/2013 06:48 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Anthony Papillion <papill...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> I'm writing a processor for Bitmessage messages and I am needing to >>>> parse the following returned JSON string: >>>> >>>> {u'inboxMessages': >>> >>> Does the JSON string really have those u prefixes and apostrophes? >>> That's not valid JSON. You may be able to use ast.literal_eval() on it >>> - I was able to with the example data - but not a JSON parser. Can you >>> sort out your transmission end? >>> >>> ChrisA >> >> I think I remembered what the 'u' prefix is. It indicates that the data >> following is a unicode string. So could that be valid JSON data wrapped >> up in unicode? > > No; JSON already supports Unicode. What you may have is an incorrect > JSON encoder that uses Python's repr() to shortcut its work - but it's > wrong JSON. > > But bitmessage seems to be written in Python. Can you simply access > the objects it's giving you, rather than going via text strings? > > ChrisA
Once I looked at the data in a better structured way and saw it in the proper type it became clear. Here is my solution: data = json.loads(api.getAllInboxMessages()) for message in data['inboxmessages']: print message['fromAddress'] Yep, it was that simple. Thanks for the help guys! I appreciate how fast everyone responded. Anthony -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list