title: Remove Backslash from JSON string?
body: <p>I am using python url library to get json response from spatial reference website.This is my code. I get <strong>response_read="u'{\'type\': \'EPSG\', \'properties\': {\'code\': 102646}}'"</strong> but i need this response in this form:<strong>"{'type': 'EPSG', 'properties': {'code': 102646}}"</strong>. How i achieve output in this form? </p>
  
  <pre><code>headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0'}
   req = urllib2.Request("http://spatialreference.org/ref/esri/"nad-1983-stateplane-california-vi-fips-0406-feet"/json/", None, headers)
          response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
          response_read = response.read().decode('utf-8')
          result = json.dumps(response_read)  
          epsg_json = json.loads(result)
          epsg_code = epsg_json['properties']['code']
          return epsg_code
  </code></pre>