Unicode values in strings are escaped when dumping to JSON in Python

Question

For example:

>>> print json.dumps(\'růže\')
\"r\\u016f\\u017ee\"

(Of course, in the real program it\'s not just a single string, a

Answer 1

Pass the ensure_ascii=False argument to json.dumps:

>>> print json.dumps('růže', ensure_ascii=False)
"růže"