Issues parsing the response from a request

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I understand that the u is not an issue but I can't seem to parse this information out.

You get u'something' because you use Python 2,just stop using Python 2.
Python 3 has a new Unicode system,that's much improved over Python 2.

>>> import requests
>>> 
>>> buttonColor = 'Yellow'
>>> r = requests.post('http://httpbin.org/post', json={"buttonColor":buttonColor})
>>> r.status_code
200
>>> json_data = r.json()
>>> print(json_data['json'])
{'buttonColor': 'Yellow'}
>>> print(json_data['json']['buttonColor'])
Yellow