Converting to UTF-8 (again)

Question

I\'ve this string Traor\\u0102\\u0160

Traor\\u0102\\u0160 Should produce Traoré. Then Traoré utf-8 decoded shou

Answer 1

You need tell requests what encoding to expect:

>>> import requests
>>> r = requests.get(url)
>>> r.encoding = 'UTF-8'
>>> r.json[u'Item'][u'LastName']
u'Traor\xe9'

Otherwise, you'll get this:

>>> r = requests.get(url)
>>> r.json['Item']['LastName']
u'Traor\u0102\u0160'