title: How to convert a list of dictionaries which has type as string to a list?
body: <p>I have some data like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>r = [{
    "id": "fhjgjj",
    "OneId": "sjgkhkshgkfh",
    "name": "test_one",
    "value": "/xyz",
    "pdiff": null
  }]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Yes, 'r' is in JSON format.</p>
  
  <p>I had r as unicode earlier (that's how data is obtained from an API).  So I did</p>
  
  <p>u1 = r.encode("utf-8") which converts it to a string. (Unicode to string obtained here)</p>
  
  <p>But if you see, r (above) is a list of dictionaries. What do I do to convert it to a list?</p>