In <aae37903-e5ab-41c5-87a7-2e3e78444...@googlegroups.com>
vanommen.rob...@gmail.com writes:
> result = urllib2.urlopen(request, postData)
> para = result.read()
> print para
> the output is:
> [null,null,null,null,null,"J"]
> print para[1]
> the output is:
> n
Probably because para is a string with the value
'[null,null,null,null,null,"J"]'
> How can I change the data back to an array? I've tried with json, but
> that doesn't change anything.
As far as I know, result.read() only returns text. If you want your results
in some other format (like an array), you'll need to parse the string.
This is a very simple (and ugly) way to do it, but it may give you a
starting point:
# open the url
result = urllib2.urlopen(request, postData)
# read the raw text results
raw_text = result.read()
# strip off the leading '[' and trailing ']'
raw_text = raw_text[1:-1]
# split raw_text into an array of strings
text_array = raw_text.split(',')
# declare a new list for storing the parsed items
para = []
# process each string
for item in text_array:
if item == 'null':
para.append(None)
else:
para.append(item)
The python csv module might have a better way to do this; have a look.
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