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ajay_t
ajay_t

Reputation: 2385

JSON object with single quotes without escape characters

I am trying to create son object out of the raw string that I receive in real time stream for processing. String I am processing is:

{‘check_1’:{‘key_1’:15017.118,‘key_2’:’HTTPConnectionPool(host=‘host_1’, port=80): Read timed out. (read timeout=15)’,’key_3’:’Some reason here’}}

I am trying to replace the single quote with the double quotes with something like

str = str.replace(",'", ',"').replace("',", '",')
str = str.replace(":'", ':"').replace("':", '":')
str = str.replace("{'", '{"').replace("'}", '"}')

but value for key_2 is causing the problem when I do json.loads(str) because value of key_2 has multiple single quotes.

One way I am thinking is using regex with back propagation. Is there is any other way to convert this type of strings into son object.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 633

Answers (1)

Blitzer
Blitzer

Reputation: 56

This quick hack with re library seems to work

import re
thestring = re.sub(r'[‘’]', '"', thestring) # don't call your variable str
thestring = re.sub(r'="(\S+)"', r"='\1'", thestring)
print( json.loads(thestring))

Upvotes: 1

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