虽然这里有一些很好的答案，但我最终使用PyYAML来解析我的JSON文件，因为它以str类型字符串而不是unicode类型给出键和值。因为JSON是YAML的一个子集，它工作得很好:

>>> import json
>>> import yaml
>>> list_org = ['a', 'b']
>>> list_dump = json.dumps(list_org)
>>> list_dump
'["a", "b"]'
>>> json.loads(list_dump)
[u'a', u'b']
>>> yaml.safe_load(list_dump)
['a', 'b']

笔记

但有一些事情需要注意:

I get string objects because all my entries are ASCII encoded. If I would use Unicode encoded entries, I would get them back as unicode objects — there is no conversion! You should (probably always) use PyYAML's safe_load function; if you use it to load JSON files, you don't need the "additional power" of the load function anyway. If you want a YAML parser that has more support for the 1.2 version of the spec (and correctly parses very low numbers) try Ruamel YAML: pip install ruamel.yaml and import ruamel.yaml as yaml was all I needed in my tests.

转换

如上所述，没有任何转换!如果你不能确定只处理ASCII值(而且大多数时候你不能确定)，最好使用转换函数:

我现在用过几次Mark Amery的，效果很好，很容易使用。您还可以使用类似的函数作为object_hook，因为它可以提高大文件的性能。请参阅Mirec Miskuf稍复杂的回答。

我有一个JSON字典作为字符串。键和值是Unicode对象，如下例所示:

myStringDict = "{u'key':u'value'}"

我可以使用上面建议的byteify函数，使用ast.literal_eval(myStringDict)将字符串转换为dict对象。

这是因为json()在字符串对象和Unicode对象之间没有区别。它们都是JavaScript中的字符串。

我认为JSON返回Unicode对象是正确的。事实上，我不会接受更少的东西，因为JavaScript字符串实际上是unicode对象(即JSON (JavaScript)字符串可以存储任何类型的unicode字符)，因此在从JSON转换字符串时创建unicode对象是有意义的。普通字符串不适合，因为库必须猜测您想要的编码。

最好在任何地方都使用unicode字符串对象。因此，最好的选择是更新库，使它们能够处理Unicode对象。

但如果你真的想要字节串，只需将结果编码为你选择的编码:

>>> nl = json.loads(js)
>>> nl
[u'a', u'b']
>>> nl = [s.encode('utf-8') for s in nl]
>>> nl
['a', 'b']

下面是一个用C语言编写的递归编码器: https://github.com/axiros/nested_encode

与json.loads()相比，“平均”结构的性能开销约为10%。

python speed.py
  json loads            [0.16sec]: {u'a': [{u'b': [[1, 2, [u'\xd6ster..
  json loads + encoding [0.18sec]: {'a': [{'b': [[1, 2, ['\xc3\x96ster.
  time overhead in percent: 9%

使用这个测试结构:

import json, nested_encode, time

s = """
{
  "firstName": "Jos\\u0301",
  "lastName": "Smith",
  "isAlive": true,
  "age": 25,
  "address": {
    "streetAddress": "21 2nd Street",
    "city": "\\u00d6sterreich",
    "state": "NY",
    "postalCode": "10021-3100"
  },
  "phoneNumbers": [
    {
      "type": "home",
      "number": "212 555-1234"
    },
    {
      "type": "office",
      "number": "646 555-4567"
    }
  ],
  "children": [],
  "spouse": null,
  "a": [{"b": [[1, 2, ["\\u00d6sterreich"]]]}]
}
"""


t1 = time.time()
for i in xrange(10000):
    u = json.loads(s)
dt_json = time.time() - t1

t1 = time.time()
for i in xrange(10000):
    b = nested_encode.encode_nested(json.loads(s))
dt_json_enc = time.time() - t1

print "json loads            [%.2fsec]: %s..." % (dt_json, str(u)[:20])
print "json loads + encoding [%.2fsec]: %s..." % (dt_json_enc, str(b)[:20])

print "time overhead in percent: %i%%"  % (100 * (dt_json_enc - dt_json)/dt_json)

没有内置选项让json模块函数返回字节字符串而不是Unicode字符串。然而，这个简短而简单的递归函数将任何解码的JSON对象从使用Unicode字符串转换为utf -8编码的字节字符串:

def byteify(input):
    if isinstance(input, dict):
        return {byteify(key): byteify(value)
                for key, value in input.iteritems()}
    elif isinstance(input, list):
        return [byteify(element) for element in input]
    elif isinstance(input, unicode):
        return input.encode('utf-8')
    else:
        return input

只需在从json中获得的输出上调用此函数。加载或json。负载的电话。

几点注意事项:

To support Python 2.6 or earlier, replace return {byteify(key): byteify(value) for key, value in input.iteritems()} with return dict([(byteify(key), byteify(value)) for key, value in input.iteritems()]), since dictionary comprehensions weren't supported until Python 2.7. Since this answer recurses through the entire decoded object, it has a couple of undesirable performance characteristics that can be avoided with very careful use of the object_hook or object_pairs_hook parameters. Mirec Miskuf's answer is so far the only one that manages to pull this off correctly, although as a consequence, it's significantly more complicated than my approach.

使用钩子支持Python 2和3(来自Mirec Miskuf的回答):

import requests
import six
from six import iteritems

requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings()  # @UndefinedVariable
r = requests.get("http://echo.jsontest.com/key/value/one/two/three", verify=False)

def _byteify(data):
    # If this is a Unicode string, return its string representation
    if isinstance(data, six.string_types):
        return str(data.encode('utf-8').decode())

    # If this is a list of values, return list of byteified values
    if isinstance(data, list):
        return [ _byteify(item) for item in data ]

    # If this is a dictionary, return dictionary of byteified keys and values,
    # but only if we haven't already byteified it
    if isinstance(data, dict):
        return {
            _byteify(key): _byteify(value) for key, value in iteritems(data)
        }
    # If it's anything else, return it in its original form
    return data

w = r.json(object_hook=_byteify)
print(w)

返回:

 {'three': '', 'key': 'value', 'one': 'two'}