I have to remove u' in all the list items

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[u'bangladesh', u'bhutan', u'maldives', u'nepal', u'sri lanka', u'united arab emirates', u'hong kong', u'malaysia', u'singapore', u'thailand', u'china', u'bahrain', u'iran (islamic republic of)', u'jordan', u'kuwait']

I dont want the u' in every item.

I don't know why not, but if you don't want it, `return list(map(str, HttpResponse(a)))` — zondo, Mar 19 '16 at 13:22
It's high time to move to Python 3. Common, it's been 8 years since it was first released. — Antoine Pinsard, Mar 19 '16 at 15:40

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 19 '16 at 13:22

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No, you don't. Apart from anything else, that still wouldn't be valid JSON, because it has single quotes.

If you want JSON, you should ask for JSON.

return HttpResponse(json.dumps(a))

answered Mar 19 '16 at 13:22

Daniel Roseman

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I have to remove the duplicates in the list too before converting it into JSON – Anmol Gulati Mar 19 '16 at 13:32
OK, so why don't you do that? – Daniel Roseman Mar 19 '16 at 13:36
What? I tried that by converting it into set but it says unhashable error – Anmol Gulati Mar 19 '16 at 13:38
Is there something you can help me with? – Anmol Gulati Mar 19 '16 at 14:03
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No, because that is too vague. Exactly what did you try, and exactly what error did you get? And that is a separate question; if I have answered this one, accept it and ask a new one. – Daniel Roseman Mar 19 '16 at 14:09

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 19 '16 at 13:32

The u is just informational, meaning that the texts are unicode.

>>> country
[u'bangladesh', u'bhutan', u'maldives', u'nepal', u'sri lanka', u'united arab emirates', u'hong kong', u'malaysia', u'singapore', u'thailand', u'china', u'bahrain', u'iran (islamic republic of)', u'jordan', u'kuwait']
>>> for c in country:
...     print c
... 
bangladesh
bhutan
maldives
nepal
sri lanka
united arab emirates
hong kong
malaysia
singapore
thailand
china
bahrain
iran (islamic republic of)
jordan
kuwait
>>> import json
>>> json.dumps(country)
'["bangladesh", "bhutan", "maldives", "nepal", "sri lanka", "united arab emirates", "hong kong", "malaysia", "singapore", "thailand", "china", "bahrain", "iran (islamic republic of)", "jordan", "kuwait"]'
>>>

So, you don't have to do anything, you just misunderstood what the u means

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 19 '16 at 13:28

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If you just want to remove u' from every item just replace the line

....
a.append(list_country[i])
...

by

....
a.append(str(list_country[i]))
....

answered Mar 19 '16 at 13:28

florex

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I have to remove u' in all the list items

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