Whenever I try to print out json from python, it ignores line breaks and prints the literal string "\n" instead of new line characters.

I'm generating json using jinja2. Here's my code:

print json.dumps(template.render(**self.config['templates'][name]))

It prints out everything in the block below (literally - even the quotes and "\n" strings):

"{\n    \"AWSTemplateFormatVersion\" : \"2010-09-09\",\n    \"Description\" : ...

(truncated)

I get something like this whenever I try to dump anything but a dict. Even if I try json.loads() then dump it again I get garbage. It just strips out all line breaks.

What's going wrong?

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