Convert JSON array to Python list
import jsonarray = '{"fruits": ["apple", "banana", "orange"]}'data = json.loads(array)fruits_list = data['fruits']print fruits_list
data will return you a string representation of a list, but it is actually still a string. Just check the type of data with type(data). That means if you try using indexing on this string representation of a list as such data['fruits'][0], it will return you "[" as it is the first character of data['fruits']
You can do json.loads(data['fruits']) to convert it back to a Python list so that you can interact with regular list indexing. There are 2 other ways you can convert it back to a Python list suggested here