[Python] How to parse json string values that contain double quotes? [closed]

json_str = '{"name": "This is a "test"", "description": "Another "example""}'
json_dict = json.loads(json_str)


For example, "test" and "example" are double quoted which break json format. How to parse this correctly? My goal is to produce a valid json str which can be loaded as a dict object.

If I first use:

json_str = json.dumps(json_str)


The output is:

'"{\\"name\\": \\"This is a \\"test\\"\\", \\"description\\": \\"Another \\"example\\"\\"}"'


However, now if I load it,

json_str = json.loads(json_str)


It becomes the original str, but not a dict object:

'{"name": "This is a "test"", "description": "Another "example""}'


I think this should be a very common issue when dealing with json data, but I didn't find a solution to do it. Isn't a standard way to do this?

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