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navyad
navyad

Reputation: 3860

How to handle python unicode string in javascript?

A dict in which the string values are unicode string like {'name': u'nav', 'school': u'mps'}

In javascript, i'm trying access that dict like

<script>
var poi = {{ dict }}  ........... //Line #1
alert( poi.name )
</script>

while rending the html page line #1 is rendered as (error):

{'lastname': u'yadav', 'age': 23, 'id': 2, 'firstname': u'sahenky'}

One python solution is to encode the unicode string into some other format like ascii or utf-8(preferred)

str = u'nav'
str.encode('utf-8, 'ignore')
>>str
nav

Is there any elegant way to encode unicode string in python or javascript?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1803

Answers (1)

Thomas Orozco
Thomas Orozco

Reputation: 55303

Instead of passing the actual dict to the template, JSON encode it first: 

import json
json.dumps(dict)

Upvotes: 1

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