python json dumps encoding,为什么python json.dumps抱怨ascii解码？

I have the following lines in my code

outs = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(sys.stdout)

# dJSON contains JSON message with non-ASCII chars

outs.write(json.dumps(dJSON,encoding='utf-8', ensure_ascii=False, indent=indent_val))

I am getting the following exception:

outs.write(json.dumps(dJSON,encoding='utf-8', ensure_ascii=False, indent=indent_val))

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 238, in dumps

**kw).encode(obj)

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py", line 204, in encode

return ''.join(chunks)

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 27: ordinal not in range(128)

I through that by specifying encoding='utf-8' in the json.dumps statement, I avoid this type of problem. Why am I still getting the error?

解决方案

My guess is that dJSON object does not contain pure unicode but it contains mix of unicode and strings already encoded as utf-8 e.g. this fails

>>> d = {u'name':u'पाइथन'.encode('utf-8')}

>>> json.dumps(d, encoding='utf-8', ensure_ascii=False)

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "", line 1, in

File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 238, in dumps

**kw).encode(obj)

File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/json/encoder.py", line 204, in encode

return ''.join(chunks)

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe0 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

But this works (everything unicode)

>>> d = {u'name':u'पाइथन'}

>>> json.dumps(d, encoding='utf-8', ensure_ascii=False)

u'{"name": "\u092a\u093e\u0907\u0925\u0928"}

Though this also works (everything string)

>>> d = {'name':u'पाइथन'.encode('utf-8')}

>>> json.dumps(d, encoding='utf-8', ensure_ascii=False)

'{"name": "\xe0\xa4\xaa\xe0\xa4\xbe\xe0\xa4\x87\xe0\xa4\xa5\xe0\xa4\xa8"}'