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madhur
madhur

Reputation: 173

How to convert a unicode list to a list containing python dictionary in python 2.x and 3.x

Here is list containing dictionary

[{u'alpha2_code': u'AX', u'alpha3_code': u'ALA', u'name': u'\ufffd\ufffdland Islands'},{u'alpha2_code': u'AL', u'alpha3_code': u'ALB',u'name':u'Albania'},{u'alpha2_code':u'DZ',u'alpha3_code': u'DZA', u'name': u'Algeria'},{u'alpha2_code': u'AS', u'alpha3_code': u'ASM', u'name': u'American Samoa'}]

I want to remove 'u from each key/value pair.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 560

Answers (1)

Anwarvic
Anwarvic

Reputation: 12992

Actually, I don't know why you want to convert your (key, value) pairs into string, but here is a simple solution. In this function, I'm creating a new list and encode each (key, value) pair into an ascii string.

def change_type(lst):
    new_list= []
    for dic in lst:
        new_dic = {}
        for k, v in dic.iteritems():
            new_dic[k.encode("ascii","ignore")] = v.encode("ascii","ignore")
        new_list.append(new_dic)
    return new_list

Note that you have a value of "\ufffd\ufffdland Islands" which contains unicode characters. So, you have to remove these characters and this function should work. Here is how your list should be:

>>> lst = [ {u'alpha2_code': u'AX', u'alpha3_code': u'ALA', u'name': u'land Islands'},
    {u'alpha2_code': u'AL', u'alpha3_code': u'ALB', u'name': u'Albania'},
    {u'alpha2_code': u'DZ', u'alpha3_code': u'DZA', u'name': u'Algeria'},
    {u'alpha2_code': u'AS', u'alpha3_code': u'ASM', u'name': u'American Samoa'}]

>>> new_list = change_type(lst)
>>> new_list
[{'alpha2_code': 'AX', 'alpha3_code': 'ALA', 'name': 'land Islands'},
 {'alpha2_code': 'AL', 'alpha3_code': 'ALB', 'name': 'Albania'}, 
 {'alpha2_code': 'DZ', 'alpha3_code': 'DZA', 'name': 'Algeria'},
 {'alpha2_code': 'AS', 'alpha3_code': 'ASM', 'name': 'American Samoa'}]

Upvotes: 2

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