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

The gotcha is that simplejson and json are two different modules, at least in the manner they deal with unicode. You have json in py 2.6+, and this gives you unicode values, whereas simplejson returns string objects. Just try easy_install-ing simplejson in your environment and see if that works. It did for me.