Escape double quotes for JSON in Python

Question

How can I replace double quotes with a backslash and double quotes in Python?

>>> s = \'my string with \"double quotes\" blablabla\'
>>>          


        

Answer 1

Note that you can escape a json array / dictionary by doing json.dumps twice and json.loads twice:

>>> a = {'x':1}
>>> b = json.dumps(json.dumps(a))
>>> b
'"{\\"x\\": 1}"'
>>> json.loads(json.loads(b))
{u'x': 1}