Django Rest Framework: Convert serialized data to list of values

Question

I'm using a DRF ModelSerializer to serve a one-field queryset, but the response returns as a list of dicts

[{"state": "AL"}, {"state": "AR"}, {"state": "AZ"}]

Is there any way to return a pure string list, like ["AL", "AR", "AZ"] ? I've explored other questions, but haven't found anything useful.

you can use python comprehension list to transform your dict to list of values and return it as json. — Rvector
– Rvector, Commented Sep 21, 2021 at 15:41

Niel Godfrey P. Ponciano · Accepted Answer · 2021-09-21 16:51:50Z

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If you just need the state, you can extract the data out of that list of dicts:

response = [{"state": "AL"}, {"state": "AR"}, {"state": "AZ"}]
states = [data.get("state") for data in response]
print(states)

Output

['AL', 'AR', 'AZ']

answered Sep 21, 2021 at 16:51

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