On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Anthony Papillion <papill...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm writing a processor for Bitmessage messages and I am needing to > parse the following returned JSON string: > > {u'inboxMessages':
Does the JSON string really have those u prefixes and apostrophes? That's not valid JSON. You may be able to use ast.literal_eval() on it - I was able to with the example data - but not a JSON parser. Can you sort out your transmission end? ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list