title: How do I get rid of the "u" from a decoded JSON object?
body: <p>I have a dictionary of dictionaries in Python:</p>
  
  <pre><code>d = {"a11y_firesafety.html":{"lang:hi": {"div1": "http://a11y.in/a11y/idea/a11y_firesafety.html:hi"}, "lang:kn": {"div1": "http://a11y.in/a11ypi/idea/a11y_firesafety.html:kn}}}
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  <p>I have this in a JSON file and I encoded it using <code>json.dumps()</code>. Now when I decode it using <code>json.loads()</code> in Python I get a result like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>temp = {u'a11y_firesafety.html': {u'lang:hi': {u'div1': u'http://a11y.in/a11ypi/idea/a11y_firesafety.html:hi'}, u'lang:kn': {u'div1': u'http://a11y.in/a11ypi/idea/a11y_firesafety.html:kn'}}}
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  <p>My problem is with the "u" which signifies the Unicode encoding in front of every item in my temp (dictionary of dictionaries). How to get rid of that "u"?</p>