Django: serializing list to json

Question

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?

Answer 1

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]]'

Answer 2

Just a note: if using python 2.5 you may need to import simplejson:

try:
    import json
except ImportError:
    import simplejson as json