如何将这个特定的json字符串转换为python字典？

Question

How do I convert this string ->

 string = [{"name":"sam"}]

into a python dictionary like so ->

data = {
         "name" : "sam"
       }

Answer 1

In [1]: import json

In [2]: json.loads('[{"name":"sam"}]')
Out[2]: [{u'name': u'sam'}]

This returns a list, the first element of which is the desired dictionary.

Answer 2

string = [{ "name" : "sam" }]
data = string[0]

now the data is the dict