Json dumping a dict throws TypeError: keys must be a string

Question

I am attempting to convert the following dict into JSON using json.dumps:

 {
     \'post_engaged\': 36,
     \'post_impressions\':          


        

Answer 1

You could try to clean it up like this:

for key in mydict.keys():
  if type(key) is not str:
    try:
      mydict[str(key)] = mydict[key]
    except:
      try:
        mydict[repr(key)] = mydict[key]
      except:
        pass
    del mydict[key]

This will try to convert any key that is not a string into a string. Any key that could not be converted into a string or represented as a string will be deleted.