akira added the comment: You need to escape backslashes inside a Python string literal or use raw-string literals:
>>> import json >>> json.loads(r'["[\"Residential | Furniture | Cabinets\",\"119.99\"]"]') [u'["Residential | Furniture | Cabinets","119.99"]'] If the backslashes are unintentional then you could remove them: >>> json.loads('[["Residential | Furniture | Cabinets","119.99"]]') [[u'Residential | Furniture | Cabinets', u'119.99']] Note: the result is different ---------- nosy: +akira _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue21182> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com