how to get rid of unicode characters in python output?
<p>i am trying to load a json file and then trying to parse it later.
however, in the output i keep getting the 'u' characters.
I tried to open the file with encoding='utf-8' which dint solve the problem.
i am using python 2.7. is there a straight forward approach or workaround to ignore and get ride of the 'u' characters in the output.</p>

<pre><code>import json
import io


with io.open('/tmp/install-report.json', encoding='utf-8') as json_data:
    d = json.load(json_data)
    print d
</code></pre>

<p>o/p</p>

<pre><code>{u'install': {u'Status': u'In Progress...', u'StartedAt': 1471772544,}}
</code></pre>

<p>p.s: i went trough this post <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/761361/suppress-the-uprefix-indicating-unicode-in-python-strings">Suppress the u&#39;prefix indicating unicode&#39; in python strings</a>
but that doesn't have a solution for python 2.7</p>