Remove prefix quotes from a list of strings

Question

So I have a list that includes some prefix single quotes that I really don\'t need.

I tried to convert them with map().

The list looks like this:

Answer 1

You could use ast.literal_eval to safely parse the strings in the list:

from ast import literal_eval

list(map(literal_eval, my_list))
# [{'id': 'browser', 'top': 5000}, {'id': 'amo_ef_id', 'top': 5000}]