[python] Removing u in list

u'AB' is just a text representation of the corresponding Unicode string. Here're several methods that create exactly the same Unicode string:

L = [u'AB', u'\x41\x42', u'\u0041\u0042', unichr(65) + unichr(66)]
print u", ".join(L)

Output

AB, AB, AB, AB

There is no u'' in memory. It is just the way to represent the unicode object in Python 2 (how you would write the Unicode string literal in a Python source code). By default print L is equivalent to print "[%s]" % ", ".join(map(repr, L)) i.e., repr() function is called for each list item:

print L
print "[%s]" % ", ".join(map(repr, L))

Output

[u'AB', u'AB', u'AB', u'AB']
[u'AB', u'AB', u'AB', u'AB']

If you are working in a REPL then a customizable sys.displayhook is used that calls repr() on each object by default:

>>> L = [u'AB', u'\x41\x42', u'\u0041\u0042', unichr(65) + unichr(66)]
>>> L
[u'AB', u'AB', u'AB', u'AB']
>>> ", ".join(L)
u'AB, AB, AB, AB'
>>> print ", ".join(L)
AB, AB, AB, AB

Don't encode to bytes. Print unicode directly.


In your specific case, I would create a Python list and use json.dumps() to serialize it instead of using string formatting to create JSON text:

#!/usr/bin/env python2
import json
# ...
test = [dict(email=player.email, gem=player.gem)
        for player in players]
print test
print json.dumps(test)

Output

[{'email': u'[email protected]', 'gem': 0}, {'email': u'test', 'gem': 0}, {'email': u'test', 'gem': 0}, {'email': u'test', 'gem': 0}, {'email': u'test', 'gem': 0}, {'email': u'test1', 'gem': 0}]
[{"email": "[email protected]", "gem": 0}, {"email": "test", "gem": 0}, {"email": "test", "gem": 0}, {"email": "test", "gem": 0}, {"email": "test", "gem": 0}, {"email": "test1", "gem": 0}]

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