Unable to read non-ASCII content

Question

I want to read non-ASCII JSON data, in my case it is in Perrsian, from a web page. Here is my code in python-2.7:

jsonObject = json.loads(urllib2.urlopen("https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/"+userId+"/?access_token="+accessToken).read().decode('utf-8').encode('utf-8'));
print jsonObject;

Unfortunately, even after decoding and encoding I got the result like this:

{u'meta': {u'code': 200}, u'data': {u'username': u'*******', u'bio': u'\u0639\u06a9\u0633 \u062f\u0648 \u0646\u0641\u0631\u062a\u0648\u0646 \u0631\u0648 \u0627\u0631\u0633\u0627\u0644 \u06a9\u0646\u06cc\u062f\U0001f48f\U0001f491', u'website': u'', u'profile_picture': u'*****', u'full_name': u'\U0001f451\u0639\u0634\u0642 \u0647\u0627\u06cc \u0627\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u0646\u06cc\U0001f451', u'counts': {u'media': 31, u'followed_by': 12449, u'follows': 0}, u'id': u'*******'}}

What do I need to do to get the characters correctly?

Answer 1

That's normal. Container contents use Python-syntax representations that are ASCII friendly.

Print the individual string values, and you'll see that the actual value is still there:

>>> print jsonObject['data']['bio']
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