Reading JSON from urllib2.open and UTF8 characters

Question

I'm reading a JSON with:

# coding: utf8 import urllib2 import json response = urllib2.urlopen('https://example.com/test.json') data = json.load(response) print data['mykey'] # {u'readme': u'Caf\xe9'}

but I see two things:

Every string is prefixed with u, i.e. type 'unicode'
\xe9 instead of é

How to do this properly with Python 2.7?

this is only the representation of a dictionary. Printing dictionaries is only for debugging purposes. What is your problem? — Daniel
– Daniel, Commented Feb 25, 2018 at 15:59
Then show code, that really makes some problems (beside printing). — Daniel
– Daniel, Commented Feb 25, 2018 at 16:05
@Basj "How do this properly with Python 2.7?" What are you trying to do exactly? You haven't described why the prefix is an issue or why the characters are an issue either. You say you want to "output the data to screen before storing anything in the DB" and one answer shows that you can print it to the screen and my answer shows a way you could save it with the characters intact. What is the issue? What is your actual question? — G_M
– G_M, Commented Feb 25, 2018 at 16:16
@DeliriousLettuce: I just discovered my question is in fact an XY problem, because I was displaying output from the SublimeText console. When I display from console with python myscript.py, it works, see stackoverflow.com/q/48975692/1422096. — Basj
– Basj, Commented Feb 25, 2018 at 16:23

G_M · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-25 15:52:11Z

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>>> import json >>> d = {u'readme': u'Caf\xe9'} >>> json.dumps(d) '{"readme": "Caf\\u00e9"}' >>> json.dumps(d, ensure_ascii=False) '{"readme": "Café"}'

answered Feb 25, 2018 at 15:52

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Basj Over a year ago

In fact I'm importing data, and not exporting: json.load(..., ensure_ascii=False) doesn't exist. How would you do this?

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