tmdbsimple content type? How to work with it?

[pythonnewbie138]

I'm trying to figure out how to access data via the TMDB API using the tmdbsimple wrapper. I've figured out some of the basics but I'm unsure how to reference items in the query results.

First off... Am I looking at python dictionary/list data or JSON data below? The multi-tier braces {[{}]} are what's throwing me off. (I've separated the output based on the search result.

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[bowlofred]

It appears to be a python dict. If nothing, else, JSON requires double-quotes as string designators, single quotes aren't valid for that.