Petri Lehtinen added the comment: This is a documentation bug for 2.7. Setting as duplicate of #13769. ---------- nosy: +petri.lehtinen resolution: -> duplicate stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> json.dump(ensure_ascii=False) return str instead of unicode versions: -Python 3.2, Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14042> _______________________________________