Replace double quotes inside double quotes in python

Asked Feb 12 '18 at 14:14

Active Feb 12 '18 at 15:27

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JSON { "data": "{"id": "123", "unit": "metric", "location": "NYC"}" }

needs to be

{ "data": "{'id': '123', 'unit': 'metric', 'location': 'NYC'}" }

basically, any double quotes inside double quotes needs to become single quote

Tried

import re
re.sub('\w[: ]*"\w','',str)

Does not work

edited Feb 12 '18 at 14:19

asked Feb 12 '18 at 14:14

user544079

How the variable str would be a valid string? don't shadow the inbuilt types – Avinash Raj Feb 12 '18 at 14:16
It should be a valid json – user544079 Feb 12 '18 at 14:17
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But the input [is not valid Python code in the first place](https://ideone.com/1QR4gg)! – phihag Feb 12 '18 at 14:17
JSON needs to be made valid. Have double quotes inside double quotes in JSON. need to make that single quote – user544079 Feb 12 '18 at 14:20
I tested `(?<={.*?{.*?)"(?=.*?}.*?})` it worked fine – Leyff da Feb 12 '18 at 14:27
This should help you (I just tried and it worked): [How do I automatically fix an invalid JSON string?](https://stackoverflow.com/a/18515887/1639625) – tobias_k Feb 12 '18 at 15:26

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