How to parse a list in Python that might have whitespace and returning JSONDecodeError: Extra data: line 1 column 6 (char 5) errors?

I have the following list in Python3

mylist=['"{  "score": "Really Good",  "text": "This is a text accompanying the score, level, and more.",  "level": "high level"}"',
 '"{  "score": "Not So Good",  "text": "This is a text accompanying the score, level, and more.",  "level": "high level"}"']

I would like to access each of the elements in mylist, such as score,key,text. When I try to do

scores = [json.loads(json_str)["score"] for json_str in mylist]

I get the error JSONDecodeError: Extra data: line 1 column 6 (char 5). My suspicion is that it is because of whitespace, and more (single quotes on outside). How can I parse this correctly?

>Solution :

It looks like you have an extra set of double quotes in each string. You can either remove them manually or just slice them out like this:

scores = [json.loads(json_str[1:-1])["score"] for json_str in mylist]