How do I put a dictionary into JSON without the escape slash
<p>I'm not sure what I am doing wrong.  I have a dictionary that I want to convert to JSON.  My problem is with the escape \</p>

<p>How do I put a dictionary into JSON without the escape \</p>

<p>Here is my code:</p>

<pre><code>def printJSON(dump):
    print(json.dumps(dump, indent=4, sort_keys=True))

data = {'number':7, 'second_number':44}
json_data = json.dumps(data)
printJSON(json_data)
</code></pre>

<p>The output is:
    "{\"second_number\": 44, \"number\": 7}"</p>

<p>I want the output to look like this:
    "{"second_number": 44, "number": 7}"</p>