How to dump a Python 2.6 dictionary with UTF-8 strings?

[W. Martin Borgert]

Hi,

naively, I thought the following code:

#!/usr/bin/env python2.6
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import codecs
d = { u'key': u'我爱中国人' }
if __name__ == "__main__":
    with codecs.open("ilike.txt", "w", "utf-8") as f:
        print >>f, d

would produce a file ilike.txt like this:

{u'key': u'我爱中国人'}

But unfortunately, it results in:

{u'key': u'\u6211\u7231\u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba'}

What's the right way to get the strings in UTF-8?

Thanks in advance!