json proper encoding and decoding not working with flask, python - python-2.7

Question

I'm taking a text-input from html being json object and trying to work upon that. But when I'm trying the following code, I'm getting error/(page not rendering) in encoding and decoding JSON.
#app.route('/', methods=['POST'])
def my_form_post():
text = request.form['text']
#getting text-input as text = {'a':'1','b':'2'}
json_input = json.dumps(text)
ordered_json = json.loads(text, object_pairs_hook=ordereddict.OrderedDict)
print ordered_json
processed_text = htmlConvertor(ordered_json)
#rep(jso)
return render_template("my-form.html",processed_text=processed_text)
But when I'm tying to do so with a local JSON variable as jso everything working fine. The same input when I provide with html-input, it's giving an error and I can;t even see the error except displaying Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request. Either the server is overloaded or there is an error in the application.
#app.route('/', methods=['POST'])
def my_form_post():
jso = '''{
"glossary": {
"title": "example glossary",
"GlossDiv": {
"title": "S",
"GlossList": {
"GlossEntry": {
"ID": "SGML",
"SortAs": "SGML",
"GlossTerm": "Standard Generalized Markup Language",
"Acronym": "SGML",
"Abbrev": "ISO 8879:1986",
"GlossDef": {
"para": "A meta-markup language, used to create markup languages such as DocBook.",
"GlossSeeAlso": ["GML", "XML"]
},
"GlossSee": "markup"
}
}
}
}
}'''
json_input = json.dumps(jso)
ordered_json = json.loads(jso, object_pairs_hook=ordereddict.OrderedDict)
print ordered_json
processed_text = htmlConvertor(ordered_json)
#rep(jso)
return render_template("my-form.html",processed_text=processed_text)
UPDATE:
Everything working fine now, but for the integers, it isn't working.
For eg:
{"name":"yo","price":"250"}
works perfectly but
{"name":"yo","price":250}
ain't.
What's the solution for that? Any specific answer or I would have to check for integer in python and then convert it to string before applying any JSON related methods and functioning.

Answer 1

Not sure if this is your problem, but {'a':'1','b':'2'} is not a valid JSON object because of the single quotes:
>>> json.loads("{'a':'1','b':'2'}")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/__init__.py", line 307, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/decoder.py", line 319, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/decoder.py", line 336, in raw_decode
obj, end = self._scanner.iterscan(s, **kw).next()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/scanner.py", line 55, in iterscan
rval, next_pos = action(m, context)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/decoder.py", line 171, in JSONObject
raise ValueError(errmsg("Expecting property name", s, end))
ValueError: Expecting property name: line 1 column 1 (char 1)
If instead you use double quotes everything works fine:
>>> json.loads("{\"a\":\"1\",\"b\":\"2\"}")
{u'a': u'1', u'b': u'2'}
Also note that to get stack traces intead of code 500 errors when there is an exception you have to start your flask server as follows:
app.run(debug = True)