"invalid character 'u' looking for beginning of value"Parsing Error from an Service developed in golang

Question

I am trying to have the response from API which is developed in Golang. Using PostMan I get the proper response, but when I use requests library, I get the following message:

{  
    u'status':400,
    u'title':u'Unable to parse data',
    u'code':u'400001',
    u'id':u'edf83LlwYx',
    u'detail':u"invalid character 'u' looking for beginning of value"
}

My Python script is:

import requests
import json
import data

url = data.user_login

headers = {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    'content-encoding': 'deflate'
}

form = {
    "username": "askjhashdasjd",
    "password": "asdfASDF1234#="
}

response = requests.post(url,headers=headers, data=form)
json_data = json.loads(response.text)
print json_data

I am getting the proper response from the other services using this script.

Answer 1

data_to_send = json.dumps(form).encode("utf-8")
response = requests.post(url, data=data_to_send)

This Makes the thing done :)