Q:

Python print unicode strings in arrays as characters, not code points

If I've got a dictionary of the form:
a = {u"foo": u"ბარ"}
and I write 
>>> print a[u"foo"]
I get
ბარ
as expected.  But if I write
>>> print a
I get
{u'foo': u'\u10d1\u10d0\u10e0'}, but I would prefer the characters themselves to be printed. 
All the data will ultimately get dumped into a database anyway, so it's not critical to solve this problem, but for debugging it would be nice if I could get readable output when I print the entire dictionary.  Is there any way to do this? 
For those who are curious, the script is Georgian, and yes, it says "bar". 

A:

This works in my terminal:
print repr(a).decode("unicode-escape")

