when python loads json,how to convert str to unicode ,so I can print Chinese characters? -

i got json file this:

{     'errnum': 0,         'retdata': {     'city': "武汉"     } }  import json  content = json.loads(result) # supposing json file named result cityname = content['retdata']['city']  print cityname 

after that, got output : \u6b66\u6c49 know it's unicode of chinese character of 武汉 ,but type of str isinstance(cityname,str) true. how can convert str unicode , output 武汉

i have tried these solutions:

>>> u'\u6b66\u6c49' u'\u6b66\u6c49' >>> print u'\u6b66\u6c49' 武汉 >>> print '\u6b66\u6c49'.decode() \u6b66\u6c49 >>> print '\u6b66\u6c49' \u6b66\u6c49 

searched ascii,unicode , utf-8 ,encode , decode ,but cannot understand,it crazy! need ,thanks !

your json contains escaped unicode characters. can decode them actual unicode characters using unicode_escape codec:

print cityname.decode('unicode_escape') 

note that, while work, depending on source of unicode escaping have problems characters outside basic multilingual plane (u+0 u+ffff). convenient quote user @bobince took comment:

note ... there number of different formats use \u escapes - python unicode literals (which unicode-escape handles), java properties, javascript string literals, json, , on. important know 1 dealing because have different rules other escapes valid. unicode-escape may or may not valid way of parsing data depending on comes from.