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On 08/31/2013 07:32 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Anthony Papillion <papillion@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> No; JSON already supports Unicode. What you may have is an incorrect
> JSON encoder that uses Python's repr() to shortcut its work - but it's
> wrong JSON.
> 
> But bitmessage seems to be written in Python. Can you simply access
> the objects it's giving you, rather than going via text strings?
> 
> ChrisA

Once I looked at the data in a better structured way and saw it in the
proper type it became clear. Here is my solution:

data = json.loads(api.getAllInboxMessages())
for message in data['inboxmessages']:
    print message['fromAddress']

Yep, it was that simple. Thanks for the help guys! I appreciate how fast
everyone responded.

Anthony