Python django escape unicode

I want to escape unicode.

My python s开发者_开发知识库cript contains:

unicode_str = u'\u8fb0'

My template file contains:

{{ unicode_str|escape }}

It results in a KeyError.

How do I escape unicode characters?

Thanks!

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In your python code you can use the following to escape unicode when passing an object as a whole:

import json
dict = {'name': 'John Doe'}
json.dumps(dict)

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The inbuilt escape filter is not designed to handle Unicode. Write your own.