String Dict to Unicode conversion

Question

I was wondering if there are any intuit functionality that I can use to go from string dict to unicode dict.

Input:

{'name': 'Lexus', 'model': 'GS F'}

Expected output:

{u'name': u'Lexus', u'model': u'GS F'}

• jwodder: Do you know how to go from str to unicode?
• slonkar: unicode(inputString, "utf-8")
• wim: If this is literally in source code, don't do it at runtime! Use from __future__ import unicode_literals.
• Padraic Cunningham: If you are new to python, I suggest you start with Python3.

Answer 1

>>> d={'name': 'Lexus', 'model': 'GS F'}
>>> d={k.decode('utf8'): v.decode('utf8') for k, v in d.items()}

output :

{u'model': u'GS F', u'name': u'Lexus'}