javascript - Fetching and using python nested list into JS using django -

i have page displays data. data displays needs in js array format (representing python nested list).

in order this, use js function fetches data django view:

js function:

var getdatafromfiles1 = function(theurl) {     $.ajaxsetup({async: false});     var xmlhttp = new xmlhttprequest();         xmlhttp.open( "get", theurl, false );         xmlhttp.send( null );         return xmlhttp.responsetext; }; 

views.py:

a = mymodel.objects.get(c=b, x=y) json_object = json.dumps(a.data) return httpresponse(json_object, content_type="application/javascript") 

however, data comes typeof string, , thought use json.parse() pull js array, not work:

var data = getdatafromfiles1(url); console.log(data + " : " + typeof data) data = json.parse(data) console.log(data + " : " + typeof data) 

and logging included above gives:

"[[\"example\", \"example\", \"example\", \"example\", \"not set\"], [\"example\", \"example\", \"example\", \"example\", \"not set\"]]" : string

and

[["example", "example", "example", "example", "not set"], ["example", "example", "example", "example", "not set"]] : string

am missing obvious? how create js array object data (with flexibility of not dropping data in template tags on load?

you don't show model, guess a.data json - you're double-encoding it.

drop json.dumps , return httpresponse(a.data, content_type="application/javascript").