Playing with unicode on Python 2.7

python27unicode.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from __future__ import print_function, unicode_literals
from pprint import pprint
import json

st = u"lol"

lt = [["foo", 1],["bar", 2]]

foo = {"keys": "hosts",
       "bar": True,
       "values": lt,}

bar = json.dumps(foo)

enc_st = st.encode('utf-8')
dec_st = st.decode('utf-8')

print("lt: {l}".format(l=lt))
print("foo: {f}".format(f=foo))
print("bar: {b}".format(b=bar))

print("raw_st: {st}".format(st=st))
print("enc_st: {es}".format(es=enc_st))
print("dec_st: {ds}".format(ds=dec_st))

print("---")

pprint(lt)
pprint(foo)
pprint(bar)

pprint(st)
pprint(enc_st)
pprint(dec_st)