Avoid L suffix for Long in python [duplicate]

Question

I have a dictionary which may have long values for some key. I want to convert this dictionary to string and send it to a server. But when I am converting it to a string using str(dict) function for the values which have a long value is suffixed with 'L'. This when I am sending it to a server the value it is generating a problem. So can anyone suggest me a easier way of what I can do to avoid the 'L' suffix

Answer 1

I'm not sure what your use case is but to solve this problem and quite possibly the next problem you'll have I'd suggest using json.

import json
a = {'a': 10, 'b': 1234567812345678L}
print json.dumps(a)

# output:
{"a": 10, "b": 1234567812345678}