Converting Unicode sequences to a string in Python 3

Question

In parsing an HTML response to extract data with Python 3.4 on Kubuntu 15.10 in the Bash CLI, using print() I am getting output that looks like

Answer 1

It appears your input uses backslash as an escape character, you should unescape the text before passing it to json:

>>> foobar = '{\\"body\\": \\"\\\\u05e9\\"}'
>>> import re
>>> json_text = re.sub(r'\\(.)', r'\1', foobar) # unescape
>>> import json
>>> print(json.loads(json_text)['body'])
ש

Don't use 'unicode-escape' encoding on JSON text; it may produce different results:

>>> import json
>>> json_text = '["\\ud83d\\ude02"]'
>>> json.loads(json_text)
['