How do I process this using Python?

[Cameron Simpson]

On 31Aug2013 19:19, Anthony Papillion <papillion at 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 at 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?
| 
| 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?

How sure are you that it is JSON? It looks to me like a message
that might once have been JSON, but has already been passed through
json.loads() for you.

What does type(the_json) say? What does repr(the_json) say?
Print both.

I would guess it has already been parsed.

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

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