json.loads function not giving python dictionary - json

Question

I am trying to convert the below mentioned json string to python dictionary. I am using python 3's json package for the same. Here is the code that I am using :
a = "[{'id': 35, 'name': 'Comedy'}, {'id': 18, 'name': 'Drama'}, {'id': 10751, 'name': 'Family'}, {'id': 10749, 'name': 'Romance'}]"
b = json.loads(json.dumps(a))
print(type(b))
And the output that I am getting from the above code is:
<class 'str'>
I saw the similar questions asked in stackoverflow, but the solutions presented for those questions do not apply to my case.

Answer 1

The json string that you are trying to convert is not properly formatted. Also, you need to only call json.loads to convert string into dict or list.
The updated code would look like:
import json
a = '[{"id": 35, "name": "Comedy"}, {"id": 18, "name": "Drama"}, {"id": 10751, "name": "Family"}, {"id": 10749, "name": "Romance"}]'
b = json.loads(a)
print(type(b))
Hope this explains why you are not getting the expected results.

Answer 2

JSON Array is enclosed in [ ] while JSON object is enclosed in { }
The string in a is a json array so you can change that into a list only.
Your key and value should be enclosed with double quotes, that's the requirement to use json library of python.
b = json.loads(a) will give a list of dictionary objects.
To get further dictionary of dictionary you need to associate a key with each individual dictionary.
d = dict()
ind = 0
for data in b:
d[ind] = data
ind+=1
Now the output that you get will be
{0: {'id': 35, 'name': 'Comedy'}, 1: {'id': 18, 'name': 'Drama'}, 2: {'id': 10751, 'name': 'Family'}, 3: {'id': 10749, 'name': 'Romance'}}
which is a dictionary of dictionary.
Thank you