Python request .json() method change symbols

It is not an apostrophe (') in your string, but a (unicode) character "right single quotation mark" (’). Which may not be as obvious to a naked eye (depending on a font used easier or more difficult to spot), but it is still a completely different character to the computer.

>>> u"’" == u"'" False 

The difference you see between displaying text attributed and what json() method returns is just a matter of representation of that character.

For instance:

>>> s = u'’' >>> print s ’ 

But when you do the same with a dictionary returned by json() individual keys and values thereof are formatted using repr() resulting in:

>>> d = {'k': s} >>> print d {'k': u'\u2019'} 

Just as in:

>>> print repr(s) u'\u2019' 

Nonetheless, it is still the same thing:

>>> d['k'] == s True 

For that matter:

>>> u'’' == u'\u2019' True 

You may want to have a look at __str__() and __repr__() methods as well as description of print for more details:

• https://docs.python.org/2.7/reference/datamodel.html#object.str
• https://docs.python.org/2.7/reference/datamodel.html#object.repr
• https://docs.python.org/2.7/reference/simple_stmts.html#print