Question

I have this String (representing a JSON value):

BABEL_JSON = "{
    'BD': u'Bangladesh', 
    'WF': u'Wallis y Futuna', 
    'BF': u'Burkina Faso'
}"

and I need to transform into a List object like this:

BABEL_LIST = [
    ("BD", u"Bangladesh"),
    ("WF", u"Wallis y Futuna"),
    ("BF", u"Burkina Faso")
]

What is the best way? to begin I tried with:

import json
BABEL_LIST = json.loads(str(BABEL_JSON))

but I have this error:

TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable

Answer 1

It is the best and fastest way to do it I found

BABEL_JSON = "{
    'BD': u'Bangladesh', 
    'WF': u'Wallis y Futuna', 
    'BF': u'Burkina Faso'
}"

BABEL_LIST = [(key, countries[key]) for key in BABEL_JSON]

And if you want to sort them by the name.

BABEL_LIST.sort(key=lambda tup: tup[1])