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jsonunicodepython-3.6
VJAYSLN
VJAYSLN

Reputation: 483

Dump Chinese data into a json file

I am falling on a problem, while dumping a chinese data (non-latin language data) into a json file.

I am trying to store list into a json file with the following code;

with open("file_name.json","w",encoding="utf8") as file:
    json.dump(edits,file)

It will dumped without any errors. When i am viewing a file, it will look like this,

[{sentence: \u5979\u7d30\u5c0f\u8072\u5c0d\u6211\u8aaa\uff1a\u300c\u6211\u501f\u4f60\u4e00\u679d\u925b\u7b46\u3002\u300d}...]

And I also tried out, without encoding option.

with open("file_name.json","w") as file:
    json.dump(edits,file)

My question is, why my json file look like this, and how to dump my json file with having chinese string instead of unicode string. Any helps would be appreciated. Thanks : )

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1301

Answers (1)

Adeom
Adeom

Reputation: 248

Check out the docs for json.dump.

Specifically, it has a switch ensure_ascii that if set to False should make the function not escape the characters.

If ensure_ascii is true (the default), the output is guaranteed to have all incoming non-ASCII characters escaped. If ensure_ascii is false, these characters will be output as-is.

Upvotes: 2

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