Before sending the data to the page element, you could do this at controller or view:
data = dumped[1:-1] to remove the array notation Anyway, something is wrapping the object inside an array. Is that the default behavior? On Feb 15, 2:07 am, Vineet <[email protected]> wrote: > In controller, I prepare a json object :-- > > import simplejson > D = {'a':1.23, 'b':'xyz'} > jsonD = simplejson.dumps(D, as_decimal=True) > > This json object is sent to the browser. > An HTML input element is populated with this json object. > In the input box within the browser, it looks like this ---> > > [{"a":"1.23", "b":"abc"}] > (pl. note the [] brackets. > I was expecting something like this ---> > > {"a":"1.23", "b":"abc"} > > (if the code is run in python shell, [ ] are not there). > > So in javascript code, for accessing a value, I need to parse it like > this: > > var txds = JSON.parse($('#json_input').val()); > alert(txds[0]['a']); > > instead of this: > > alert(txds['a']); > > How do I avoid the [ ]? (if possible) > > Thanks, > > Vineet
