Remove escape characters / Unicode characters from string

[DreamingInsanity]

Look like you are using text or content to get data back.
json do not look that like if website give back real json.
Example:

>>> import requests
>>> 
>>> r = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/get')
>>> r.json()
{'args': {},
 'headers': {'Accept': '*/*',
             'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip, deflate',
             'Host': 'httpbin.org',
             'User-Agent': 'python-requests/2.22.0',
             'X-Amzn-Trace-Id': 'Root=1-5ebe589e-a1eff28e599b122b81950144'},
 'origin': '46.246.118.243',
 'url': 'http://httpbin.org/get'}

# Now can acess data like this
>>> r.json()['origin']
'46.246.118.243'

Not json,here use text or content no will see \ or \\\ as as you get.

>> r.content
(b'{\n  "args": {}, \n  "headers": {\n    "Accept": "*/*", \n    "Accept-Encodi'
 b'ng": "gzip, deflate", \n    "Host": "httpbin.org", \n    "User-Agent": "py'
 b'thon-requests/2.22.0", \n    "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-5ebe589e-a1eff28e'
 b'599b122b81950144"\n  }, \n  "origin": "46.246.118.243", \n  "url": "http://'
 b'httpbin.org/get"\n}\n')

>>> r.text
('{\n'
 '  "args": {}, \n'
 '  "headers": {\n'
 '    "Accept": "*/*", \n'
 '    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate", \n'
 '    "Host": "httpbin.org", \n'
 '    "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.22.0", \n'
 '    "X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-5ebe589e-a1eff28e599b122b81950144"\n'
 '  }, \n'
 '  "origin": "46.246.118.243", \n'
 '  "url": "http://httpbin.org/get"\n'
 '}\n')

The .json attribute would be very helpful but unfortunately, as I mentioned, the json data is stored inside a javascript variable so I have to return the data as a string to allow me to use .replace()