How to remove unicode characters from Dictionary data in python

Question

After using request library , am getting below dict in response.json()

{u'xyz': {u'key1': None, u'key2': u'Value2'}}

I want to remove all unicode characters and print only key value pairs without unicode chars

I have tried below method to remove , but it shows malformed string

>>> import json, ast
>>> c = {u'xyz': {u'key1': None,u'key2': u'Value2'}}
>>> ast.literal_eval(json.dumps(c))

Getting 'ValueError: malformed string'

Any suggestion on how to do it ?

Answer 1

This snippet will helps you to preserve the data without unicode prefix notation u :

>>> import json
>>> c = {u'xyz': {u'key1': u'Value1',u'key2': u'Value2'}}
>>> print c
{u'xyz': {u'key2': u'Value2', u'key1': u'Value1'}}
>>> d = eval(json.dumps(c))
>>> print d
{'xyz': {'key2': 'Value2', 'key1': 'Value1'}}

json.dumps() will convert the dict to string type and eval() will reverse it.

Note: key1 value has changed from None to 'value1' for testing purpose