Convert JSON array to Python list

Question

import json  array = '{"fruits": ["apple", "banana", "orange"]}' data  = json.loads(array) 

That is my JSON array, but I would want to convert all the values in the fruits string to a Python list. What would be the correct way of doing this?

Answer 1

import json  array = '{"fruits": ["apple", "banana", "orange"]}' data  = json.loads(array) print data['fruits'] # the print displays: # [u'apple', u'banana', u'orange'] 

You had everything you needed. data will be a dict, and data['fruits'] will be a list

Answer 2

Tested on Ideone.

 import json array = '{"fruits": ["apple", "banana", "orange"]}' data  = json.loads(array) fruits_list = data['fruits'] print fruits_list