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hokatvcu
hokatvcu

Reputation: 239

Unicode into iterable list

I'm having trouble using a list that is represented in unicode. I've tried looking at other questions and the json.dumps() function shows a u'string' but it isn't the case for me. I can't iterate over the list because python sees the whole thing as a string and gives me individual chars. Here is some code.

print flist
print type(flist)

['a', 'b', 'c']
<type 'unicode'>

myjson = json.dumps(flist)
print myjson
print type(myjson)

"['a', 'b', 'c']"
<type 'str'>

Shouldn't it be? : 

[u'a', u'b', u'c']

Upvotes: 0

Views: 183

Answers (1)

Anand S Kumar
Anand S Kumar

Reputation: 90979

Try ast.literal_eval

import ast
ast.literal_eval(flist.decode())

Upvotes: 1

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