Python JSON loads/dumps breaks Unicode?

Question

Dumping a string that contains unicode characters as json produces weird unicode escape sequences:

text = \"⌂⚘いの法嫁\"
print(text) # output: ⌂⚘いの法嫁

import json
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Answer 1

Call json.dumps with ensure_ascii=False:

json_string = json.dumps(json_dict, ensure_ascii=False)

On Python 2, the return value will be unicode instead of str, so you might want to encode it before doing anything else with it.