Python: json.loads returns items prefixing with 'u'
Everything is cool, man. The 'u' is a good thing, it indicates that the string is of type Unicode in python 2.x.
http://docs.python.org/2/howto/unicode.html#the-unicode-type
The d3 print below is the one you are looking for (which is the combination of dumps and loads) :)
Having:
import jsond = """{"Aa": 1, "BB": "blabla", "cc": "False"}"""d1 = json.loads(d) # Produces a dictionary out of the given stringd2 = json.dumps(d) # Produces a string out of a given dict or stringd3 = json.dumps(json.loads(d)) # 'dumps' gets the dict from 'loads' this timeprint "d1: " + str(d1)print "d2: " + d2print "d3: " + d3Prints:
d1: {u'Aa': 1, u'cc': u'False', u'BB': u'blabla'}d2: "{\"Aa\": 1, \"BB\": \"blabla\", \"cc\": \"False\"}"d3: {"Aa": 1, "cc": "False", "BB": "blabla"}