Python code to create JSON with Marathi language Giving Unreadable JSON-CodePudding

I am trying to create JSON file using python code. file is created successfully with English language but not properly working with Marathi Language. Please check out code:

import os
import json

jsonFilePath = "E:/file/"
captchaImgLocation = "E:/file/captchaimg/"

path_to_tesseract = r"C:/Program Files/Tesseract-OCR/tesseract.exe"
image_path = r"E:/file/captchaimg/captcha.png"


x = {
    "FName": "प्रवीण",
}

# convert into JSON:
y = json.dumps(x, ensure_ascii=False).encode('utf8')

# the result is a JSON string:
print(y.decode())

completeName = os.path.join(jsonFilePath, "searchResult_Unicode.json")
print(str(completeName))
file1 = open(completeName, "w")
file1.write(str(y))
file1.close()

O/P on console:
{"FName": "प्रवीण"}
<br>
File created inside folder like this:
b'{"FName": "\xe0\xa4\xaa\xe0\xa5\x8d\xe0\xa4\xb0\xe0\xa4\xb5\xe0\xa5\x80\xe0\xa4\xa3"}'

There is no run time or compile time error but JSON is created with with above format. Please suggest me any solution.

CodePudding user response：

You have encoded the JSON string, so you must either open the file in binary mode or decode the JSON before writing to file, so:

file1 = open(completeName, "wb")
file1.write(y)

file1 = open(completeName, "w")
file1.write(y.decode('utf-8'))

Doing

file1 = open(completeName, "w")
file1.write(str(y))

writes the string representation of the bytes to the file, which always the wrong thing to do.

CodePudding user response：

Do you want your json to be human readable? It's usually bad practice since you would never know what encoding to use.
You can write/read your json files with the json module without worrying about encoding:

import json

json_path = "test.json"
x = {"FName": "प्रवीण"}

with open(json_path, "w") as outfile:
    json.dump(x, outfile, indent=4)

with open(json_path, "r") as infile:
  print(json.load(infile))