How to Remove "U" in Output. Error: Attributeerror: 'Dict' Object Has No Attribute 'Encode'
I Am Trying to Store Json Output in a Variable. Initially I Got the Output but It Was Prepended with Character "U" (Unicode). Below Is the Initial Output...
I am trying to store JSON output in a variable. Initially I got the output but it was prepended with character "u" (unicode). Below is the initial output:
{u'imdata': [{u'nvoNws': {u'attributes': {u'dn': u'sys/epId-1/nws', u'status': u'', u'persistentOnReload': u'true', u'monPolDn': u'', u'modTs': u'2017-02-24T00:50:47.373+00:00', u'uid': u'0', u'childAction': u''}}}, {u'nvoPeers': {u'attributes': {u'dn': u'sys/epId-1/peers', u'status': u'', u'persistentOnReload': u'true', u'monPolDn': u'', u'modTs': u'2017-02-24T00:50:47.373+00:00', u'uid': u'0', u'childAction': u''}}}, {u'nvoEp': {u'attributes': {u'status': u'', u'operState': u'down', u'persistentOnReload': u'true', u'propFaultBitmap': u'', u'hostReach': u'0', u'adminSt': u'disabled', u'holdUpTime': u'0', u'encapType': u'0', u'uid': u'0', u'epId': u'1', u'sourceInterface': u'unspecified', u'descr': u'', u'monPolDn': u'uni/fabric/monfab-default', u'modTs': u'2017-02-24T00:50:47.373+00:00', u'holdDownTimerExpiryTime': u'NA', u'autoRemapReplicationServers': u'no', u'operEncapType': u'0', u'dn': u'sys/epId-1', u'mac': u'00:00:00:00:00:00', u'cfgSrc': u'0', u'childAction': u'', u'vpcVIPNotified': u'no', u'learningMode': u'0', u'controllerId': u'0', u'holdUpTimerExpiryTime': u'NA', u'holdDownTime': u'180'}, u'children': [{u'nvoPeers': {u'attributes': {u'status': u'', u'persistentOnReload': u'true', u'monPolDn': u'', u'modTs': u'2017-02-24T00:50:47.373+00:00', u'uid': u'0', u'rn': u'peers', u'childAction': u''}}}, {u'nvoNws': {u'attributes': {u'status': u'', u'persistentOnReload': u'true', u'monPolDn': u'', u'modTs': u'2017-02-24T00:50:47.373+00:00', u'uid': u'0', u'rn': u'nws', u'childAction': u''}}}]}}], u'totalCount': u'3'}
So then I added encode('utf-8') to my print output statement and after that I got below error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/shandeep/Desktop/n9k-rest/Andys_payloads/Andys_script.py", line 548, in <module>
get_interface_nve()
File "/Users/shandeep/Desktop/n9k-rest/Andys_payloads/Andys_script.py", line 113, in get_interface_nve
print(x.encode('utf-8'))
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'encode'
Below is definition and function call.
def request_get(dn):
cookie = login_api()
response = requests.get(url + dn + '?query-target=subtree&rsp-subtree=full', cookies=cookie, verify=False)
print('Valid response: \n' + response.text)
return response.json()
def get_interface_nve():
x = request_get('/api/mo/sys/epId-1.json')
print('PRINT OUTPUT: \n')
#print(x)
print(x.encode('utf-8'))
Function call:
get_interface_nve()
1 Answer
dict objects do not have a method encode(). That is a method for str objects. The text you see is python's "repr" representation of a (unicode) string. You only have it because you used the wrong approach to convert your dict to a string.
You need to convert your dict to JSON. This is not achieved using print() or repr() or str(). Use the json module for this.
Eg:
x = {u'imdata': [{u'nvoNws': {u'attributes': {u'dn': u'sys/epId-1/nws'}}}]}
json.dump(x, sys.stdout)
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