Serializing list to JSON

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I am sending information between client and Django server, and I would like to use JSON to this. I am sending simple information - list of strings. I tried using django.core.serializers, but when I did, I got 

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute '_meta'

It seems this can be used only for Django objects. How can I serialize simple, Python objects?

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3 Answers

You can use pure Python to do it:

import json
list = [1, 2, (3, 4)] # Note that the 3rd element is a tuple (3, 4)
json.dumps(list) # '[1, 2, [3, 4]]'
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If using Python 2.5, you may need to import simplejson: 

try:
    import json
except ImportError:
    import simplejson as json
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