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How to dumps Python object to JSON without "" using json.dumps()?

I need to request post a 36-digit id with other things to a url.
This code should be sent as json.
But when I try to json.dumps() it, the initial and final quotes are also counted and as you can see I reach 38 characters and get error.

merchant_id='xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx'
merchand_id_json = json.dumps(merchant_id)

#check len of merchat id and merchant id in json format
print('len merchant_id is', len(merchant_id))
print('len merchand_id_json is', len(merchand_id_json))

# Set header 
request_header = {
    'accept': 'application/json',
    'content_type': 'application/json',
}

# Send request
res = requests.post(
        url=request_url, 
        data=
        {
            "merchant_id": merchand_id_json,
        }, 
            headers=request_header)

# Check res content in terminal 
print('res =', res) 

# Check res.text in terminal
print('res.text =', res.text)

in Terminal:

len merchant_id befor json is 36
len merchand_id after json is 38
res =  <Response [200]>
res.text = {"data":[],"errors":{"code":-9,"message":"The input params invalid, validation error.","validations":[{"merchant_id":"The merchant id may not be greater than 36 characters."},{"merchant_id":"string is not a valid uuid."}]}}

How can I convert this 36-digit id to json format without increasing the number of characters?

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  1. 0

    You don’t need to call json.dumps() at all. Requests will convert the outgoing data to json automatically, if you use the json= argument instead of data=.

    res = requests.post(
    url=request_url, 
    json={"merchant_id": merchant_id},
    headers=request_header)
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  2. 0

    The quotes are added by json.dumps() automatically.

    To avoid the quotes, you can just pass the merchant_id string directly in the request body without json.dumps():

    data = {
  "merchant_id": merchant_id
}

requests.post(url, data=data)

    Now the request body will contain the raw merchant_id string without any quotes added.

    By passing the string directly instead of encoding to JSON, it avoids the extra quotes added by json.dumps(). This prevents increasing the character length.

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