How to get string objects instead of Unicode from JSON?

Question

I\'m using Python 2 to parse JSON from ASCII encoded text files.

When loading these files with either json or simplejson, all my

Answer 1

Support Python2&3 using hook (from https://stackoverflow.com/a/33571117/558397)

import requests
import six
from six import iteritems

requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings()  # @UndefinedVariable
r = requests.get("http://echo.jsontest.com/key/value/one/two/three", verify=False)

def _byteify(data):
    # if this is a unicode string, return its string representation
    if isinstance(data, six.string_types):
        return str(data.encode('utf-8').decode())

    # if this is a list of values, return list of byteified values
    if isinstance(data, list):
        return [ _byteify(item) for item in data ]

    # if this is a dictionary, return dictionary of byteified keys and values
    # but only if we haven't already byteified it
    if isinstance(data, dict):
        return {
            _byteify(key): _byteify(value) for key, value in iteritems(data)
        }
    # if it's anything else, return it in its original form
    return data

w = r.json(object_hook=_byteify)
print(w)

Returns:

 {'three': '', 'key': 'value', 'one': 'two'}