Using Boto3 in python to acquire results from dynamodb and parse into a usable variable or dictionary

at the end of my code where it says "print(json.dumps(i, cls=DecimalEncoder))" I changed that to "d = ast.literal_eval((json.dumps(i, cls=DecimalEncoder)))" I also added import ast at the top. It worked beautifully.

import ast

table = dynamodb.Table('footable')
response = table.scan(
    Select="ALL_ATTRIBUTES",
    )

for i in response['Items']:
    d = ast.literal_eval((json.dumps(i, cls=DecimalEncoder)))