JSON is appearing as unicode entities in Jinja2 template

Question

I using Jinja2 with webapp2.

Jinja2 encodes all \'context\' data into unicode as their doc says. This is proving problematic when I try to insert a json string into

Answer 1

In Jinja 2.9 I followed @Xion's advice to first convert the iterable elements to string using map('string'). The map filter result I then converted to a list which is finally output as JSON using the tojson built-in filter.

{{ jsonData|map('string')|list|tojson }}