Make array from Requests.get in python

Question

I Do the following :

@app.route('/api/test/', methods=['GET'])
def catalogue1():
 cache = []
 r = requests.get("http://192.168.198.140:5000/api/listdir")
 cache = r.content

cache = ["vagrant.txt", "Securite_sociale.jpg"] ;

when i try to print cache[0] i get "[" .

How can i transform this result to an array .

Tangential, but the line `cache = []` is not required – DaveBensonPhillips Feb 20 '16 at 21:52 — DaveBensonPhillips, Feb 20 '16 at 21:52

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 20 '16 at 21:49

I know nothing about Flask but it looks like r.content is a string, yet to be de-serialized into a Python list. e.g. rather than

cache = ["vagrant.txt", "Securite_sociale.jpg"]

you have:

cache = '["vagrant.txt", "Securite_sociale.jpg"]'

I'm presuming it's JSON, in which case you could fix this with

import json
cache = json.loads(r.content)

But I'm also presuming there's a built-in way to do this in Flask

Make array from Requests.get in python

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