Escaping single quotes JSON

Question

I am using the json module to convert a series of dictionaries to json but I am not sure why when dumping to json the strings that contain a single quote (e.g: My father\'s

Answer 1

You probably see the value representation from python interpreter. If you print the value or store it in a file, you'll see the correct behaviour.

>>> import json
>>> json.dumps("a'b")
'"a\'b"'
>>> print json.dumps("a'b")
"a'b"