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Re: How do I process this using Python?

Date 2013-08-31 19:19 -0500
From Anthony Papillion <papillion@gmail.com>
Subject Re: How do I process this using Python?
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On 08/31/2013 06:48 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Anthony Papillion <papillion@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?

Anthony

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Re: How do I process this using Python? Anthony Papillion <papillion@gmail.com> - 2013-08-31 19:19 -0500

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