title: how to convert my unicode dictionary to plain text
body: <p>I am trying to get my message to show up using jinja 2 in python and flask. The message is posted in the sql database and I want to retrieve it. so far my server.py file looks like this: </p>
  
  <pre><code>message_pull = mysql.query_db("SELECT messages.id, messages.user_id, 
  messages.message, messages.created_at, users_table.first_name, 
  users_table.last_name FROM messages JOIN users_table ON messages.user_id = 
  users_table.id")
  messages= mysql.query_db('SELECT * FROM messages')
  print messages
  return render_template('loggedin.html', messages = messages)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and my html page that corresponds to this app route looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;p&gt;{{messages}}&lt;/p&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and it shows up on the web page like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[{u'created_at': datetime.datetime(2017, 7, 21, 14, 1, 58), u'message': u'We are posting for the first time out here!', u'user_id': 26L, u'id': 1L, u'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2017, 7, 21, 14, 1, 58)}, {u'created_at': datetime.datetime(2017, 7, 21, 14, 32, 3), u'message': u'This is the second post', u'user_id': 26L, u'id': 2L, u'updated_at': datetime.datetime(2017, 7, 21, 14, 32, 3)}]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I make it show up as a regular post without the dictionary format and the "u" in front of each key and value?</p>