Question

code

 a = "한글" #korean language
 a_list = []
 a_list.append({'key': a})
 print a_list

result

[{'key': u'"\ud55c\uae00"'}]

I don’t want to convert unicode.
How can I stay in korean language
I wish to print like this

 [{'key': '한글'}]

Answer 1

Your code from the question produces:

[{'key': '\xed\x95\x9c\xea\xb8\x80'}]

This output is different from what you have shown in the question.

To produce: [{"key": "한글"}] you could use json:

print json.dumps(a_list, ensure_ascii=False, encoding=your_source_code_encoding)

Full example

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import json

a = "한글" # you should use u"" literals to work with Unicode strings
a_list = []
a_list.append({'key': a})

print json.dumps(a_list, ensure_ascii=False) # "utf-8" encoding is default

Output

[{"key": "한글"}]

You wrote:

I dont want to convert unicode. How can I stay in korean language

Read The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!).

The main takeaway is if you are working with text you must specify its encoding.

The most convenient and reliable way is to use Unicode strings throughout your program i.e., decode bytes that you read to Unicode strings as early as possible on input and encode to bytes while writing Unicode strings as late as possible on output.

To enforce that convention all strings are Unicode in Python 3. Python 2 unfortunately allows you to use bytestrings for both text and data with all confusion that it causes.