python json dumps

Question

i have the following string, need to turn it into a list without u'':

my_str = "[{u'name': u'squats', u'wrs': [[u'99', 8]], u'id': 2}]"

i can get rid of " by using

import ast
str_w_quotes = ast.literal_eval(my_str)

then i do:

import json
json.dumps(str_w_quotes)

and get

[{"id": 2, "name": "squats", "wrs": [["55", 9]]}]

Is there a way to get rid of backslashes? the goal is:

[{"id": 2, "name": "squats", "wrs": [["55", 9]]}]

Answer 1

This works but doesn't seem too elegant

import json
json.dumps(json.JSONDecoder().decode(str_w_quotes))