Q:

Reading JSON file using python produces spurious data

I am trying to parse this json file: http://pastebin.com/VcVR0ue0
While using these modules 
from pprint import pprint
import codecs
import json

file = 'Desktop10000_760_CurtSacks.json'

I've tried these methods
a) 
data = data = json.load(open(file))

b) 
data = json.load(codecs.open(file, encoding='utf_8_sig'))

In both cases the output has a u inserted in front of each key-value:
{u'document_tone': {u'tone_categories': [{u'category_id': u'emotion_tone',
                                          u'category_name': u'Emotion Tone',
                                          u'tones': [{u'score': 0.111838,
                                                      u'tone_id': u'anger',
                                                      u'tone_name': u'Anger'},
                                                     {u'score': 0.159831,
                                                      u'tone_id': u'disgust',
                                                      u'tone_name': u'Disgust'},
                                                     {u'score': 0.17082,
                                                      u'tone_id': u'fear',
                                                      u'tone_name': u'Fear'},
                                                     {u'score': 0.507748,
                                                      u'tone_id': u'joy',
                                                      u'tone_name': u'Joy'},
                                                     {u'score': 0.520722,
                                                      u'tone_id': u'sadness',
                                                      u'tone_name': u'Sadness'}]},

How do I read the file correctly? 

A:

It looks like everything's being parsed properly.
Python's syntax for a unicode string is:
u'Here is the string.'

So the Python equivalent of this JSON:
{"foo": "bar"}

is this:
{u'foo': u'bar'}

If you just print out the Python representation of the data, you'll see the Python syntax.

