Make utf8 readable in a file

Question

I have dictionary of dictionary which has utf8 encoded keys. I am dumping this dictionary to a file using json module.
In the file keys are printed in utf8

Answer 1

use ensure_ascii parameter.

>>> import json
>>> print json.dumps(u'\u0982')
"\u0982"
>>> print json.dumps(u'\u0982', ensure_ascii=False)
"ং"

http://docs.python.org/2/library/json.html#json.dump

If ensure_ascii is True (the default), all non-ASCII characters in the output are escaped with \uXXXX sequences, and the result is a str instance consisting of ASCII characters only. If ensure_ascii is False, some chunks written to fp may be unicode instances. ...