Python Json.loads to list not dict : 
Hi all I'm a new python developer and I am running into an issue that Google had not been able to address for me for me.

I understand that "json.loads(var.text)" will return a dict, and in some cases it will for me. 

Say the data looks like this: 

{
    "PROJECT_ID": 3351040882,
    "common.ALLTYPES_DESCRIPTION": "",
    "servermain.PROJECT_TITLE": "",
    
}

This data will load as a dict!

Here is a sample of the data that is loading as a list.

[  
    {
        "PROJECT_ID": 3351040882,
        "common.ALLTYPES_NAME": "AdvancedTags",
        "common.ALLTYPES_DESCRIPTION": "",
        "servermain.ALIAS_MAPPED_TO": "_AdvancedTags",
        "servermain.ALIAS_SCAN_RATE_MILLISECONDS": 0
    },
    {
        "PROJECT_ID": 3351040882,
        "common.ALLTYPES_NAME": "Channel1__CommunicationSerialization",
        "common.ALLTYPES_DESCRIPTION": "",
        "servermain.ALIAS_MAPPED_TO": "Channel1._CommunicationSerialization",
        "servermain.ALIAS_SCAN_RATE_MILLISECONDS": 0
    },
]


From my research I understand the second output is a list of dicts, is there some simple function to load a list to a dict?   
