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Manuel Santi
Manuel Santi

Reputation: 1132

Python from binary to dict

In my project i have a binary like this:

data1 = b'"[5, \\"WEB99\\", \\"Test\\", true, \\"2018-08-12\\"]"'

i would extract some informations (without \), for example date1[0] -> 5 or data1[4] -> "2018-08-12"

For doing this i try to convert my binary in a dict using json like this:

data1 = data1.decode('utf-8')

then

d1 = json.dumps(data1, default='utf-8')

but the result is a mess:

'"\"[5, \\\"WEB99\\\", \\\"Test\\\", true, \\\"2018-08-12\\\"]\""'

how can i convert in a pythonic way my binary data in a format for extracting values?

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3372

Answers (2)

Oleksandr Dashkov
Oleksandr Dashkov

Reputation: 2848

You should use loads instead of dumps. However, in your case, I used loads 2 times.

data1 = b'"[5, \\"WEB99\\", \\"Test\\", true, \\"2018-08-12\\"]"'
your_list = json.loads(json.loads(data1.decode('utf-8')))

Upvotes: 1

AleMal
AleMal

Reputation: 2077

You can do this first:

data1 = data1.decode('utf-8')

then

a = json.loads(json.loads(data1,encoding='utf-8'))

[5, 'WEB99', 'Test', True, '2018-08-12']

at this point you have a list and could extract values as you want:

a[3]

True

Upvotes: 2

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