Send array back in result from urllib2.urlopen(request, postData)

[Dave Angel]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 12:57:59 -0800 (PST), vanommen.robert at gmail.com 
wrote:

No idea about the php..

> In python when i do 

> para = result.read()
> print para

> the output is:
> [null,null,null,null,null,"J"]

That's a string that just looks like a list.

> This is correct according to the data in PHP from the mysql.


> when I do 
> print para[1]

> the output is:

> n


> the seccond character from the data. Why is this not the seccond 
datafield?

There are no data fields in a string. 

> And why is para[5] not "J" but ,   ?

That's character 5 of the string.

> How can I change the data back to an array? I've tried with json, 
but that doesn't change anything.

You have to parse it. I don't know what rules you used at the php 
end, but at a guess, I'd start by stripping the brackets, then 
splitting by comma. Then iterate through each item looking for 
special cases. Each item consisting of null gets replaced by None, 
each item starting with quotes gets them stripped,  and perhaps 
anything else is replaced by float (item).

Still questions to ask like whether quoted item can have embedded 
comma.

-- 
DaveA