Unable to convert request response.

[johnboy1974]

Hi,

I'm trying to convert a response which I think is in Unicode? I am using the requests library to get data from an API. I am running the following:

import requests

url = "https://api-football-v1.p.rapidapi.com/v3/standings"

querystring = {"season":"2020","league":"187"}

headers = {
    'x-rapidapi-key': "asdfasdfasdfasdfasdf",
    'x-rapidapi-host': "api-football-v1.p.rapidapi.com"
    }

response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, params=querystring)
strResponse = response.text
utf8string = strResponse.encode("utf-8")
print(utf8string)

It doesn't work though. In that response, I have the likes of:

{"id":10735,"name":"CR B\\u00e9ni Thour"}
But that should come back as:
{"id":10735,"name":"CR Béni Thour"}

Not sure what I'm doing wrong?

Many thanks!
J