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I am trying to get answer in json format but it simply returns a String.What am i doing wrong?

I am trying to get answer in json format but it simply returns a String.What am i doing wrong?
from flask import Flask, request, Response
import mysql.connector
import json
app = Flask(__name__)
def createConnection():
connection = mysql.connector.connect(user="akshay", password="akshay", host="localhost", database="BOOKS")
return connection
#app.route("/contact")
def getContacts():
print(request)
connection = createConnection()
cursor = connection.cursor()
cursor.execute("SELECT ID, NAME, AUTHOR, SUBJECT, PRICE FROM BOOKS;")
contacts = []
for (ID, NAME, AUTHOR, SUBJECT, PRICE) in cursor:
contacts.append({
'ID': ID,
'NAME': NAME,
"AUTHOR": AUTHOR,
"SUBJECT": SUBJECT,
"PRICE": PRICE
})
cursor.close()
connection.close()
response = Response()
response.content_type ='application/json'
response.data = json.loads(json.dumps(contacts))
return response
app.run('0.0.0.0', 4000)
And this is Output::
[{u'PRICE': 9999.999, u'AUTHOR': u'AKSHAY', u'NAME': u'AKSHAY', u'ID':
4, u'SUBJECT': u'BIG_DATA'}, {u'PRICE': 123.456, u'AUTHOR': u'Yashwant
Kanetkar', u'NAME': u'Exploring C', u'ID': 1001, u'SUBJECT': u'C
Programming'}, {u'PRICE': 371.019, u'AUTHOR': u'Yashwant Kanetkar',
u'NAME': u'Pointers in C', u'ID': 1002, u'SUBJECT': u'C Programming'},
{u'PRICE': 334.215, u'AUTHOR': u'E Balaguruswami', u'NAME': u'ANSI C
Programming', u'ID': 1003, u'SUBJECT': u'C Programming'}, {u'PRICE':
140.121, u'AUTHOR': u'Dennis Ritchie', u'NAME': u'ANSI C Programming', u'ID': 1004, u'SUBJECT': u'C Programming'}, {u'PRICE': 417.764,
u'AUTHOR': u'Herbert Schildt', u'NAME': u'C++ Complete Reference',
u'ID': 2001, u'SUBJECT': u'C++ Programming'}, {u'PRICE': 620.665,
u'AUTHOR': u'Stanley Lippman', u'NAME': u'C++ Primer', u'ID': 2002,
u'SUBJECT': u'C++ Programming'}, {u'PRICE': 987.213, u'AUTHOR':
u'Bjarne Stroustrup', u'NAME': u'C++ Programming Language', u'ID':
2003, u'SUBJECT': u'C++ Programming'}, {u'PRICE': 525.121, u'AUTHOR':
u'Herbert Schildt', u'NAME': u'Java Complete Reference', u'ID': 3001,
u'SUBJECT': u'Java Programming'}, {u'PRICE': 575.651, u'AUTHOR': u'Cay
Horstmann', u'NAME': u'Core Java Volume I', u'ID': 3002, u'SUBJECT':
u'Java Programming'}, {u'PRICE': 458.238, u'AUTHOR': u'James Gosling',
u'NAME': u'Java Programming Language', u'ID': 3003, u'SUBJECT': u'Java
Programming'}, {u'PRICE': 567.391, u'AUTHOR': u'Peter Galvin',
u'NAME': u'Operatig System Concepts', u'ID': 4001, u'SUBJECT':
u'Operating Systems'}, {u'PRICE': 421.938, u'AUTHOR': u'Mauris J
Bach', u'NAME': u'Design of UNIX Operating System', u'ID': 4002,
u'SUBJECT': u'Operating Systems'}, {u'PRICE': 352.822, u'AUTHOR':
u'Uresh Vahalia', u'NAME': u'UNIX Internals', u'ID': 4003, u'SUBJECT':
u'Operating Systems'}, {u'PRICE': 872.652, u'AUTHOR': u'Ayn Rand',
u'NAME': u'Atlas Shrugged', u'ID': 8001, u'SUBJECT': u'Novell'},
{u'PRICE': 9999.999, u'AUTHOR': u'AKSHAY', u'NAME': u'AKSHAY', u'ID':
9001, u'SUBJECT': u'BIG_DATA'}]

There is nothing particularly wrong with your code, just remove the call to json.loads() so that the JSON encoded data is used as the response data.
Calling json.loads() will recreate and pass a Python data structure (list of dictionaries in this case) to the response, which will not serialise as valid JSON. In Python 2 it will serialise using the Python repr() format as produced by str() which will not always produce a JSON compatible string (the u'' string prefix for example is not valid JSON). In Python 3 is will probably cause an exception because it won't be able to convert to a bytes object.
You could improve the code by using flask.json.jsonify() which will return a Response object with the correct content type header and a JSON body:
from flask.json import jsonify
#app.route("/contact")
def getContacts():
# create contacts...
return jsonify(contacts)

Ok ,finally got the proper output::
/ 20171119101107
// http://localhost:4000/contact
[
{
"SUBJECT": "BIG_DATA",
"PRICE": 9999.999,
"AUTHOR": "AKSHAY",
"ID": 4,
"NAME": "AKSHAY"
},
{
"SUBJECT": "C Programming",
"PRICE": 123.456,
"AUTHOR": "Yashwant Kanetkar",
"ID": 1001,
"NAME": "Exploring C"
},
{
"SUBJECT": "C Programming",
"PRICE": 371.019,
"AUTHOR": "Yashwant Kanetkar",
"ID": 1002,
"NAME": "Pointers in C"
},
I removed json.loads() and installed json viewer plugin.Thank you very much for help.

SugarCRM call records REST API

I am trying to get the call records from my SugarCRM account using the REST API and I am using Python.
There I want to obtain all the attendees but all I get is the user to whom the call is assigned.
u'assigned_user_id': u'xxxxxxxx',
The response I've received is,
{u'created_by_link': {u'id': u'1', u'full_name': u'adminx', u'_acl': {u'fields': {u'last_login': {u'write': u'no', u'create': u'no'}, u'pwd_last_changed': {u'write': u'no', u'create': u'no'}}, u'_hash': u'xxxx', u'delete': u'no'}}, u'dri_workflow_task_template_link': {u'_acl': {u'fields': [], u'_hash': u'xxxx'}, u'name': u'', u'id': u''},
u'customer_journey_points': 10,
u'dri_subworkflow_id': u'',
u'recurrence_id': u'',
u'created_by_name': u'adminx',
u'date_end': u'2018-05-02T09:45:00+00:00',
u'dri_subworkflow_template_id': u'',
u'parent_type': u'Accounts',
u'contact_id': u'xxxx',
u'_acl': {u'fields': {}},
u'duration_minutes': 30,
u'tag': [],
u'assigned_user_name': u'xxxx',
u'repeat_ordinal': u'',
u'repeat_count': None,
u'contact_name': u'xxxx',
u'repeat_interval': 1, u'id': u'xxxx', > - u'parent_name': u'ABC',
u'customer_journey_parent_activity_id': u'',
u'date_entered': u'2017-07-17T12:49:23+00:00',
u'outlook_id': u'',
u'team_name': [{u'name_2': u'', u'selected': False, u'primary': True, u'id': u'1', u'name': u'Global'}, {u'name_2': u'', u'selected': False, u'primary': False, u'id': u'West', u'name': u'West'}],
u'contacts': {u'_acl': {u'fields': [], u'_hash': u'xxxx'}, u'name': u'xxx', u'id': u'xxx'},
u'dri_workflow_task_template_id': u'',
u'customer_journey_score': None,
u'date_start': u'2018-05-02T09:15:00+00:00',
u'reminder_checked': u'',
u'dri_workflow_sort_order': u'1',
u'created_by': u'1',
u'parent_id': u'xxxx',
u'dri_subworkflow_template_link': {u'_acl': {u'fields': [], u'_hash': u'xxxx'}, u'name': u'', u'id': u''},
u'dri_subworkflow_name': u'',
u'dri_subworkflow_link': {u'_acl': {u'fields': [], u'_hash': u'xxxx'}, u'name': u'', u'id': u''},
u'modified_by_name': u'adminx',
u'repeat_selector': u'',
u'email_reminder_sent': False,
u'dri_workflow_template_id': u'',
u'status': u'Not Held',
u'direction': u'Outbound',
u'accept_status_users': u'',
u'repeat_dow': u'',
u'description': u'',
u'parent': {u'type': u'Accounts', u'_acl': {u'fields': [], u'_hash': u'xxxx'}, u'name': u'XYZ Funding Inc', u'id': u'xxxx'},
u'repeat_unit': u'',
u'deleted': False,
u'is_customer_journey_parent_activity': False,
u'customer_journey_parent_activity_type': u'',
u'locked_fields': [],
u'email_reminder_time': -1,
u'following': False,
u'assigned_user_link': {u'id': u'xxxx', u'full_name': u'xxxx', u'_acl': {u'fields': [], u'_hash': u'xxxx'}},
u'repeat_type': u'',
u'assigned_user_id': u'seed_sally_id',
u'team_count_link': {u'team_count': u'', u'id': u'1', u'_acl': {u'fields': [], u'_hash': u'xxxx'}},
u'dri_workflow_task_template_name': u'',
u'modified_user_link': {u'id': u'1', u'full_name': u'adminx', u'_acl': {u'fields': {u'last_login': {u'write': u'no', u'create': u'no'}, u'pwd_last_changed': {u'write': u'no', u'create': u'no'}}, u'_hash': u'xxx', u'delete': u'no'}},
u'email_reminder_checked': u'',
u'_module': u'Calls',
u'modified_user_id': u'1',
u'repeat_until': u'',
u'name': u'test',
u'date_modified': u'2017-07-17T12:49:23+00:00',
u'accept_status': u'',
u'reminder_time': -1,
u'customer_journey_progress': 0,
u'dri_workflow_template_name': u'',
u'my_favorite': False,
u'dri_subworkflow_template_name': u'',
u'dri_workflow_template_link': {u'_acl': {u'fields': [], u'_hash': u'xxx'}, u'name': u'', u'id': u''}, > - u'set_accept_links': u'',
u'repeat_days': u'',
u'is_customer_journey_activity': False,
u'repeat_parent_id': u'',
u'team_count': u'',
u'duration_hours': 0,
u'recurring_source': u''},

Strangely, the object which contains the list of "Guests" is not present in the standard GET request i.e.
https://{INSTANCE}/rest/v10/Calls/{RECORD_ID}
After doing some troubleshooting, and looking at the model in the web application itself, I found that the "Guests" field in the GUI ties back to a model property called "invitees".
Running a web request specifically referencing this field provides you with an array of records linked to the Call ID. So try running a GET request to this endpoint:
https://{INSTANCE}/rest/v10/Calls/{RECORD_ID}?fields=invitees
This should provide you with JSON akin to the below:
{
"id": "ec041f60-72b1-11e7-89f0-00163ef1f82f",
"date_modified": "2017-08-08T12:26:47+00:00",
"invitees": {
"records": [
{
"id": "cf378211-2b38-4fe5-949b-a53040717f04",
"date_modified": "2017-08-01T16:12:48+00:00",
"_acl": {
"fields": {}
},
"_module": "Users",
"_link": "users"
},
{
"id": "fe1740e6-3fa4-11e7-8fef-00163ef1f82f",
"date_modified": "2017-05-23T10:45:52+00:00",
"_acl": {
"fields": {}
},
"_module": "Contacts",
"_link": "contacts"
},
{
"id": "dcc526fc-72b1-11e7-a6dd-00163ef1f82f",
"date_modified": "2017-07-27T09:57:21+00:00",
"_acl": {
"fields": {}
},
"_module": "Leads",
"_link": "leads"
},
{
"id": "89f8a6d1-7df0-0e0b-3568-58a5bb6ecf34",
"date_modified": "2017-04-06T10:36:16+00:00",
"_acl": {
"fields": {}
},
"_module": "Leads",
"_link": "leads"
}
],
"next_offset": {
"contacts": -1,
"leads": -1,
"users": -1
}
},
"_acl": {
"fields": {}
},
"contact_name": "test",
"_module": "Calls"
}

Unable to loop through a list of dict in python

I have a dict as follows:
{ u'has_more': False,
u'is_limited': True,
u'latest': u'1501149118.071555',
u'messages': [ { u'text': u'--Sharp 1.9 DM\n--Modifying and testing DM script for bypassing existing sonumber validation and add line items',
u'ts': u'1501149054.047400',
u'type': u'message',
u'user': u'U0HN06ZB9'},
{ u'text': u'-- support to engineering on Licensing infra upgrade to 3.6\n - created a new key for qa on current 3.5 ubuntu 12 instance\n - added that key to the instance , created the ami and shared it with QA\n - short discussion with Navin on same',
u'ts': u'1501148934.002719',
u'type': u'message',
u'user': u'U02RRQJG1'},
{ u'inviter': u'U03FE3Z7D',
u'subtype': u'channel_join',
u'text': u'<#U0HN06ZB9|shikhar.rastogi> has joined the channel',
u'ts': u'1501148921.998107',
u'type': u'message',
u'user': u'U0HN06ZB9'},
{ u'inviter': u'U03FE3Z7D',
u'subtype': u'channel_join',
u'text': u'<#U02RRQJG1|himani> has joined the channel',
u'ts': u'1501148328.777625',
u'type': u'message',
u'user': u'U02RRQJG1'},
{ u'text': u'something like ^^^^',
u'ts': u'1501148318.773838',
u'type': u'message',
u'user': u'U03FE3Z7D'},
{ u'text': u'-- This is test \n-- Not\n-- test1\n-- Test b',
u'ts': u'1501148309.770614',
u'type': u'message',
u'user': u'U03FE3Z7D'},
{ u'text': u'<!channel> can all of you start putting some random crap in same format as shift handoff',
u'ts': u'1501148287.762336',
u'type': u'message',
u'user': u'U03FE3Z7D'},
{ u'text': u'<!channel> can all of you start putting some random crap in same format as shift handoff',
u'ts': u'1501148287.762161',
u'type': u'message',
u'user': u'U03FE3Z7D'},
{ u'text': u'sjvnsv',
u'ts': u'1501138569.469475',
u'type': u'message',
u'user': u'U03FE3Z7D'},
{ u'text': u'-- Test1 \n-- Leave this ASAP',
u'ts': u'1501136157.933720',
u'type': u'message',
u'user': u'U03FE3Z7D'},
{ u'bot_id': u'B19LZG1A5',
u'subtype': u'bot_message',
u'text': u'This is crazy',
u'ts': u'1501075281.418010',
u'type': u'message',
u'username': u'TEST_BOT'}],
u'ok': True,
u'oldest': u'1500820472.964970'}
Now i am trying to extract 2 things 1st is the user and its corresponding text, but somehow i am not able to get this using following :
json_objects = json.loads(r.text)
for i in json_objects:
print json_objects['messages'][i]['user']
print json_objects['messages'][i]['text']
The above throws a error :
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "clean_test.py", line 45, in <module>
get_channel_messages()
File "clean_test.py", line 38, in get_channel_messages
print json_objects['messages'][i]['user']
TypeError: list indices must be integers, not unicode
The above should actually get the user and calls a user_detail() meathod to get the name and come back, once this is done, i want the content to be dumped into a file in the following manner
username1:
-- text
username2:
-- text2

You want to iterate over the indices of the list, not iterate over the keys of the outer dict
json_objects = json.loads(r.text)
for i in range(len(json_objects['messages'])):
print json_objects['messages'][i]['user']
print json_objects['messages'][i]['text']
Or another way would be (the Pythonic Way):
for i in json_objects['messages']:
print i['user']
print i['text']

You are iterating with dictionary and trying to access list. Try with this
for i in json_objects['messages']:
print i['user']
print i['text']

Python :: nested JSON result in Spotify

I'm having a really hard time to get a track id in Spotify search endpoint.
It is deeply nested.
So, if I do this:
results = sp.search(q='artist:' + 'Nirvava + ' track:' + 'Milk it', type='track')
pprint.pprint(results)
I am able to get:
{u'tracks': {u'href': u'https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?query=artist%3ANirvana+track%3AMilk+it&type=track&offset=0&limit=10',
u'items': [{u'album': {u'album_type': u'album',
u'artists': [{u'external_urls': {u'spotify': u'https://open.spotify.com/artist/6olE6TJLqED3rqDCT0FyPh'},
u'href': u'https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/6olE6TJLqED3rqDCT0FyPh',
u'id': u'6olE6TJLqED3rqDCT0FyPh',
u'name': u'Nirvana',
u'type': u'artist',
u'uri': u'spotify:artist:6olE6TJLqED3rqDCT0FyPh'}],
u'available_markets': [u'CA',
u'MX',
u'US'],
u'external_urls': {u'spotify': u'https://open.spotify.com/album/7wOOA7l306K8HfBKfPoafr'},
u'href': u'https://api.spotify.com/v1/albums/7wOOA7l306K8HfBKfPoafr',
u'id': u'7wOOA7l306K8HfBKfPoafr',
u'images': [{u'height': 640,
u'url': u'https://i.scdn.co/image/3dd2699f0fcf661c35d45745313b64e50f63f91f',
u'width': 640},
{u'height': 300,
u'url': u'https://i.scdn.co/image/a6c604a82d274e4728a8660603ef31ea35e9e1bd',
u'width': 300},
{u'height': 64,
u'url': u'https://i.scdn.co/image/f52728b0ecf5b6bfc998dfd0f6e5b6b5cdfe73f1',
u'width': 64}],
u'name': u'In Utero - 20th Anniversary Remaster',
u'type': u'album',
u'uri': u'spotify:album:7wOOA7l306K8HfBKfPoafr'},
u'artists': [{u'external_urls': {u'spotify': u'https://open.spotify.com/artist/6olE6TJLqED3rqDCT0FyPh'},
u'href': u'https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/6olE6TJLqED3rqDCT0FyPh',
u'id': u'6olE6TJLqED3rqDCT0FyPh',
u'name': u'Nirvana',
u'type': u'artist',
u'uri': u'spotify:artist:6olE6TJLqED3rqDCT0FyPh'}],
u'available_markets': [u'CA', u'MX', u'US'],
u'disc_number': 1,
u'duration_ms': 234746,
u'explicit': False,
u'external_ids': {u'isrc': u'USGF19960708'},
u'external_urls': {u'spotify': u'https://open.spotify.com/track/4rtZtLpriBscg7zta3TZxp'},
u'href': u'https://api.spotify.com/v1/tracks/4rtZtLpriBscg7zta3TZxp',
u'id': u'4rtZtLpriBscg7zta3TZxp',
u'name': u'Milk It',
u'popularity': 43,
u'preview_url': None,
u'track_number': 8,
u'type': u'track',
-----> u'uri':u'spotify:track:4rtZtLpriBscg7zta3TZxp'},
QUESTION:
now, how do I fetch the last 'uri' (u'uri': u'spotify:track:4rtZtLpriBscg7zta3TZxp'}, under the name 'Milk It'?

>>> print results['tracks']['items'][0]['uri']
spotify:track:4rtZtLpriBscg7zta3TZxp

How to convert a JSON string into a Python data structure

'[{"append":null,"appendCanExplainable":false,"appendList":[],"auction":{"aucNumId":"35179051643","auctionPic":"http://img.taobaocdn.com/bao/uploaded/i3/TB12WchGXXXXXb5XpXXXXXXXXXX_!!0-item_pic.jpg_40x40.jpg","link":"http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=35179051643","sku":"\xd1\xab\xb7\xd6\xc0\xe0:\xc9\xab\xbb\xd2\xcf\xdf\xbd\xf4\xc9\xed\xb3\xa4\xbf\xe3 &nbsp\xb3\xdf\xc2\xeb:M-170M-55-62KG","thumbnail":"","title":"\xcb\xb9\xbd\xf4\xc9\xed\xbf\xe3 \xb5\xaf\xc1\xa6\xd7\xe3\xc7\xf2\xd4\xaf\xbd\xa1\xc9\xed\xbf\xe3 PRO \xc4\xd0 \xb4\xf2\xb5\xd7\xd1\xb5\xc1\xb7\xb3\xa4\xbf\xe3\xcb\xd9\xb8\xc9"},"award":"","bidPriceMoney":{"amount":35,"cent":3500,"centFactor":100,"currency":{"currencyCode":"CNY","defaultFractionDigits":2,"symbol":"\xa3\xa4"},"currencyCode":"CNY","displayUnit":"\xd4\xaa"},"buyAmount":1,"content":"\xba\xc3\xc6\xc0\xa3\xa1","creditFraudRule":0,"date":"2014\xc4\xea12\xd4\xc220\xc8\xd5 15:41","dayAfterConfirm":0,"enableSNS":false,"from":"","lastModifyFrom":0,"payTime":{"date":18,"day":4,"hours":13,"minutes":4,"month":11,"seconds":37,"time":1418879077000,"timezoneOffset":-480,"year":114},"photos":[],"promotionType":"\xbb\xee\xb6\xaf\xb4\xd9\xcf\xfa ","propertiesAvg":"0.0","rate":"1","rateId":231421178840,"raterType":0,"reply":null,"shareInfo":{"lastReplyTime":"","pic":0,"reply":0,"share":false,"userNumIdBase64":""},"showCuIcon":true,"showDepositIcon":false,"spuRatting":[],"status":0,"tag":"","useful":0,"user":{"anony":true,"avatar":"http://a.tbcdn.cn/app/sns/img/default/avatar-40.png","displayRatePic":"b_red_3.gif","nick":"y***6","nickUrl":"","rank":65,"rankUrl":"","userId":"","vip":"","vipLevel":0},"validscore":1,"vicious":""},{"append":null,"appendCanExplainable":false,"appendList":[],"auction":{"aucNumId":"35179051643","auctionPic":"http://img.taobaocdn.com/bao/uploaded/i3/TB12WchGXXXXXb5XpXXXXXXXXXX_!!0-item_pic.jpg_40x40.jpg","link":"http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=35179051643","sku":"\xd1\xd5\xc9\xab\xb7\xd6\xc0\xe0:\xba\xda\xc9\xab\xba\xda\xcf\xdf\xbd\xf4\xc9\xed\xb3\xa4\xbf\xe3 &nbsp\xb3\xdf\xc2\xeb:S-160m-45~55KG","thumbnail":"","title":"\xc7\xf2\xc9\xed\xbf\xe3\xb4\xf2\xb5\xd7\xd1\xb5\xc1\xb7\xb3\xa4\xbf\xe3\xcb\xd9\xb8\xc9"},"award":"","bidPriceMoney":{"amount":35,"cent":3500,"centFactor":100,"currency":{"currencyCode":"CNY","defaultFractionDigits":2,"symbol":"\xa3\xa4"},"currencyCode":"CNY","displayUnit":"\xd4\xaa"},"buyAmount":1,"content":"\xba\xc3\xc6\xc0\xa3\xa1","creditFraudRule":0,"date":"2014\xc4\xea12\xd4\xc220\xc8\xd5 15:37","dayAfterConfirm":0,"enableSNS":false,"from":"","lastModifyFrom":0,"payTime":{"date":17,"day":3,"hours":17,"minutes":43,"month":11,"seconds":47,"time":1418809427000,"timezoneOffset":-480,"year":114},"photos":[],"promotionType":"\xbb\xee\xb6\xaf\xb4\xd9\xcf\xfa ","propertiesAvg":"0.0","rate":"1","rateId":231441191365,"raterType":0,"reply":null,"shareInfo":{"lastReplyTime":"","pic":0,"reply":0,"share":false,"userNumIdBase64":""},"showCuIcon":true,"showDepositIcon":false,"spuRatting":[],"status":0,"tag":"","useful":0,"user":{"anony":true,"avatar":"http://a.tbcdn.cn/app/sns/img/default/avatar-40.png","displayRatePic":"b_blue_3.gif","nick":"\xc2\xb7***0","nickUrl":"","rank":1235,"rankUrl":"","userId":"","vip":"","vipLevel":0},"validscore":1,"vicious":""}]'
How can I convert this str to list of dicts ? I have tried some methods, but failed. The string represents a list containing 2 big dicts, and one dict contains nested small dicts. The expected result is:
[{dict1},{dict2}]

You have a JSON string, so use the json module to decode this:
import json
decoded = json.loads(encoded)
decoded is then a Python list; you can then address each dictionary in a list, or use unpacking to assign two dictionaries to two names:
dictionary1, dictionary2 = decoded
If you are using the requests library then you can use the response.json() method to load the content:
decoded = response.json()
In this specific case you appear to have GBK encoded data however (or perhaps GB2312, a predecessor).
This goes well outside the JSON standard (which actually requires one of the UTF codecs to be used), and you'll need to tell json.loads() about the codec used:
decoded = json.loads(encoded, 'gbk')
The requests library will use whatever codec the server sent along with the response, or will otherwise use a characterset detection technique to try and find the right codec to use.
The result, when decoded, then looks like:
>>> decoded = json.loads(encoded, 'gbk')
>>> pprint(decoded)
[{u'append': None,
u'appendCanExplainable': False,
u'appendList': [],
u'auction': {u'aucNumId': u'35179051643',
u'auctionPic': u'http://img.taobaocdn.com/bao/uploaded/i3/TB12WchGXXXXXb5XpXXXXXXXXXX_!!0-item_pic.jpg_40x40.jpg',
u'link': u'http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=35179051643',
u'sku': u'\u52cb\u5206\u7c7b:\u8272\u7070\u7ebf\u7d27\u8eab\u957f\u88e4 &nbsp\u5c3a\u7801:M-170M-55-62KG',
u'thumbnail': u'',
u'title': u'\u65af\u7d27\u8eab\u88e4 \u5f39\u529b\u8db3\u7403\u8f95\u5065\u8eab\u88e4 PRO \u7537 \u6253\u5e95\u8bad\u7ec3\u957f\u88e4\u901f\u5e72'},
u'award': u'',
u'bidPriceMoney': {u'amount': 35,
u'cent': 3500,
u'centFactor': 100,
u'currency': {u'currencyCode': u'CNY',
u'defaultFractionDigits': 2,
u'symbol': u'\uffe5'},
u'currencyCode': u'CNY',
u'displayUnit': u'\u5143'},
u'buyAmount': 1,
u'content': u'\u597d\u8bc4\uff01',
u'creditFraudRule': 0,
u'date': u'2014\u5e7412\u670820\u65e5 15:41',
u'dayAfterConfirm': 0,
u'enableSNS': False,
u'from': u'',
u'lastModifyFrom': 0,
u'payTime': {u'date': 18,
u'day': 4,
u'hours': 13,
u'minutes': 4,
u'month': 11,
u'seconds': 37,
u'time': 1418879077000,
u'timezoneOffset': -480,
u'year': 114},
u'photos': [],
u'promotionType': u'\u6d3b\u52a8\u4fc3\u9500 ',
u'propertiesAvg': u'0.0',
u'rate': u'1',
u'rateId': 231421178840,
u'raterType': 0,
u'reply': None,
u'shareInfo': {u'lastReplyTime': u'',
u'pic': 0,
u'reply': 0,
u'share': False,
u'userNumIdBase64': u''},
u'showCuIcon': True,
u'showDepositIcon': False,
u'spuRatting': [],
u'status': 0,
u'tag': u'',
u'useful': 0,
u'user': {u'anony': True,
u'avatar': u'http://a.tbcdn.cn/app/sns/img/default/avatar-40.png',
u'displayRatePic': u'b_red_3.gif',
u'nick': u'y***6',
u'nickUrl': u'',
u'rank': 65,
u'rankUrl': u'',
u'userId': u'',
u'vip': u'',
u'vipLevel': 0},
u'validscore': 1,
u'vicious': u''},
{u'append': None,
u'appendCanExplainable': False,
u'appendList': [],
u'auction': {u'aucNumId': u'35179051643',
u'auctionPic': u'http://img.taobaocdn.com/bao/uploaded/i3/TB12WchGXXXXXb5XpXXXXXXXXXX_!!0-item_pic.jpg_40x40.jpg',
u'link': u'http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=35179051643',
u'sku': u'\u989c\u8272\u5206\u7c7b:\u9ed1\u8272\u9ed1\u7ebf\u7d27\u8eab\u957f\u88e4 &nbsp\u5c3a\u7801:S-160m-45~55KG',
u'thumbnail': u'',
u'title': u'\u7403\u8eab\u88e4\u6253\u5e95\u8bad\u7ec3\u957f\u88e4\u901f\u5e72'},
u'award': u'',
u'bidPriceMoney': {u'amount': 35,
u'cent': 3500,
u'centFactor': 100,
u'currency': {u'currencyCode': u'CNY',
u'defaultFractionDigits': 2,
u'symbol': u'\uffe5'},
u'currencyCode': u'CNY',
u'displayUnit': u'\u5143'},
u'buyAmount': 1,
u'content': u'\u597d\u8bc4\uff01',
u'creditFraudRule': 0,
u'date': u'2014\u5e7412\u670820\u65e5 15:37',
u'dayAfterConfirm': 0,
u'enableSNS': False,
u'from': u'',
u'lastModifyFrom': 0,
u'payTime': {u'date': 17,
u'day': 3,
u'hours': 17,
u'minutes': 43,
u'month': 11,
u'seconds': 47,
u'time': 1418809427000,
u'timezoneOffset': -480,
u'year': 114},
u'photos': [],
u'promotionType': u'\u6d3b\u52a8\u4fc3\u9500 ',
u'propertiesAvg': u'0.0',
u'rate': u'1',
u'rateId': 231441191365,
u'raterType': 0,
u'reply': None,
u'shareInfo': {u'lastReplyTime': u'',
u'pic': 0,
u'reply': 0,
u'share': False,
u'userNumIdBase64': u''},
u'showCuIcon': True,
u'showDepositIcon': False,
u'spuRatting': [],
u'status': 0,
u'tag': u'',
u'useful': 0,
u'user': {u'anony': True,
u'avatar': u'http://a.tbcdn.cn/app/sns/img/default/avatar-40.png',
u'displayRatePic': u'b_blue_3.gif',
u'nick': u'\u8def***0',
u'nickUrl': u'',
u'rank': 1235,
u'rankUrl': u'',
u'userId': u'',
u'vip': u'',
u'vipLevel': 0},
u'validscore': 1,
u'vicious': u''}]