found a solution,
using ast.literal_eval
data = request.get_args['_data']
print data
## OUT: ["{"year": 2013, "jan": 50, "feb": 60}", "{"year": 2012, "jan": 40,
"feb": 30}"] ##
print ast.literal_eval(data[0])
## OUT: {"year": 2013, "jan": 50, "feb": 60} ## <- class: dict
so with a simple for loop i am creating a new list with dicts inside
instead of strings!
nevertheless i think that this is not the proper way to handle all this,
and i should return a json result from the function instead (or something
like that)
comments/suggestions much appreciated!
On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 1:01:23 PM UTC+3, Antonis Konstantinos Tzorvas
wrote:
>
> I have created a function which returns from a given url some info parsed
> from the file in the url
>
> http://url/file.txt
> and it returns something like this
>
> parser.py output:
> _name: Test1
> _data: [{"year": 2013, "jan": 50, "feb": 60}, {"year": 2012, "jan": 40,
> "feb": 30}]
>
> def add():
> ..
> item = parser(form.vars.url)
> redirect(URL('confirm', vars=vars(item)))
> ..
>
> in confirm()
>
> if i do `print request.get_vars['_data'].__class__`
> the result is a list
>
> if i do `print request.get_vars['_data'][0].__class__`
> the result is a string and its something like this: ["{"year": 2013,
> "jan": 50, "feb": 60}", "{"year": 2012, "jan": 40, "feb": 30}"],
> but i have to transform it back into dict so to proceed with the
> db.table.insert
>
> any idea on how to handle this?
>
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