如何从包含转义双引号的 JSON 对象创建 Python dict？

Question

In Python, if I receive this response from an API (via Python's "requests" module):

{"key": "<a href=\"www.foobar.com\""}

How can I convert it to a Python dict?

If I use json.dumps, for example:

request = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
request_text = request.text
json_output = json.loads(request_text)

I receive the following error:

json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting ',' delimiter: line 1 column 19 (char 18)

Answer 1

with reference to your response {"key": "<a href="www.foobar.com""}, I test with following method.

import json request_text = {"key": "<a href=\"www.foobar.com\""}
json_output = json.dumps(request_text)
a = json.loads(json_output)
print(a.get("key"))

expected result: <a href="www.foobar.com"

Answer 2

There are two solutions:

1. Use request.json() instead of request.text
2. convert it into a raw string r'{"key": "<a href=\\"www.foobar.com\\""}' , using any unicode encoding methods.