Unexpected Unicode Values In Dataframe?

I can't find why this is happening. Can i get a justification ? using pandas in python, if I write in the console: pd.io.json.read_json('{'rCF':{'values':0.05}}') I got printed a

Solution 1:

json always decodes to Unicode:

>>> import json
>>> json.loads('{"a":"b"}')
{u'a': u'b'}

It's just that in your former case a print or the equivalent somewhere inside pandas is hiding this, as would, e.g:

>>>x = _>>>for k in x: print k... 
a

after the above snippet; but when you print (or the like) a container, you get to see the more precise repr of the container's items.