Python JSON Ensure Encoding

Question

I create a JSON file with special characters as strings.

I create for example a dict with

dict[u"Züge"] = ...
json.dump(dict, file)

When i view the dumped file it looks like this:

{
  "Z\u00fcge": [
    {

Is there a way to write to the file the encoding so that any text editor will automatically display the right characters?

i then get the following error:

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

yes but how to overcome the error is not mentioned there :( – quesaionasis Jan 30 '15 at 22:14 — quesaionasis, Jan 30 '15 at 22:14

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 30 '15 at 21:54

You need to use ensure_ascii=False in your json.dump function :

dict[u"Züge"] = ...
json.dump(dict, file,ensure_ascii=False)

Character Encodings in Json:

As permitted, though not required, by the RFC, this module’s serializer sets ensure_ascii=True by default, thus escaping the output so that the resulting strings only contain ASCII characters.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 30 '15 at 21:54

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Specify ensure_ascii=False when calling json.dump:

json.dump(dict, file, ensure_ascii=False)

answered Jan 30 '15 at 21:54

jwodder

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