title: Python Requests : Parsing an Unicode response
body: <p>I am sending a http post request to an api using python requests module that returns a response like below :</p>
  
  <pre><code>print resp.text
  [{\"status\":\"Success\",\"message\":\"3432ursuyfskfb\"}]
  
  print type(resp.text)
  &lt;type 'unicode'&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I parse this response to a list or dictionary and extract 'status' and 'message' or is there a better way to parse this response ?</p>