Python storing Japanese word into JSON file

Question

I've the json data in below format and I'm trying to store it in JSON file but it's storing in encoded form in data.json file

data= {"a": "{0}さんではないですか？"}
    with open('data.json', 'w') as fp:
        fp.write(json.dumps(data).encode("utf8"))

data.json

{"a": "{0}\u3055\u3093\u3067\u306f\u306a\u3044\u3067\u3059\u304b\uff1f"}

I want data.json to be in this format

{"a": "{0}さんではないですか？"}

I tried encoding it and then putting it in json file, no success.. can anybody tell what I'm doing wrong here and what is the right way?

Why do you care what the on-disk representation is like? That is valid JSON. — tripleee, May 12 '18 at 15:39
Possible duplicate of [Why does json.dumps escape non-ascii characters with "\uxxxx"](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32411965/why-does-json-dumps-escape-non-ascii-characters-with-uxxxx) — tripleee, May 12 '18 at 17:16
@tripleee By this train of thought everything ought to be binary files (^^) -> JSON was precisely praised thanks to its human readability. — arkan, Oct 27 '22 at 06:47

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered May 12 '18 at 15:03

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Try using json.dumps(s, ensure_ascii=False).

answered May 12 '18 at 15:03

Javier

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working, thanks another question what if I have data like {u'a: u'\u4e0d\u662f{0}?'} and this I would like to store in data.json file? I tried above method but it's giving me below error UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 23-24: ordinal not in range(128) – Gaurav Sharma May 12 '18 at 15:09
The other answer, answers that. – Javier May 12 '18 at 15:38

ktzr · Answer 2 · 2018-05-12T15:13:46.600

If you encode it you should also open the file as a byte array with wb. Because you are using utf8 instead of ascii include ensure_ascii=False in the json.dumps()

Give this a try

import json

data= {"a": "{0}さんではないですか？"}
with open('data.json', 'wb') as fp:
    fp.write(json.dumps(data, ensure_ascii=False).encode("utf8"))

data = {"a": "{0}さんではないですか？"} and

data = {"a": "{0}\u3055\u3093\u3067\u306f\u306a\u3044\u3067\u3059\u304b\uff1f"}

Both gets stored as {"a": "{0}さんではないですか？"} in the json file.

Python storing Japanese word into JSON file

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