json-direct

Introduction

json-direct is a package that overwrites the original json.dumps to make the default value of ensure_ascii to False. You only need to import json_direct and do nothing else, and then you can use json.dumps as normal and get the human-readable JSON string. You don't need to input ensure_ascii=False every time in your code.

Installation

pip3 install json-direct

Usage

import json_direct
import json

print(json.dumps({'测试': "テスト，테스트"}))

This will print {"测试": "テスト，테스트"}, instead of {"\u6d4b\u8bd5": "\u30c6\u30b9\u30c8\uff0c\ud14c\uc2a4\ud2b8"}.

Why

The default behavior of json.dumps (use \uxxxx to escape non-ascii words) leads to a lot of serious problems, such as incompatibility, unreadability, difference from expectation, etc.

For example, if you use json.dumps({'测试': "テスト，테스트"}), you will get {"\u6d4b\u8bd5": "\u30c6\u30b9\u30c8\uff0c\ud14c\uc2a4\ud2b8"}. This is not what you want. You want {"测试": "テスト，테스트"}.

The aim of this project is to increase the compatibility of code, and also ease the usage of json.dumps.

License

This project is under MIT License. You can use it freely.