Saving utf-8 texts in json.dumps as UTF8, not as \u escape sequence

Question

sample code:

>>> import json
>>> json_string = json.dumps(\"ברי צקלה\")
>>> print json_string
\"\\u05d1\\u05e8\\u05d9 \\u05e6\\u05         


        

Answer 1

UPDATE: This is wrong answer, but it's still useful to understand why it's wrong. See comments.

How about unicode-escape?

>>> d = {1: "ברי צקלה", 2: u"ברי צקלה"}
>>> json_str = json.dumps(d).decode('unicode-escape').encode('utf8')
>>> print json_str
{"1": "ברי צקלה", "2": "ברי צקלה"}