[Python] How to create json content object where some of the content will be prefixed and...

I have following python code:

import json

data = {"name": "John", "age": 30, "city": "New York"}
print(data)
json_string = json.dumps(data, indent=4)
print(json_string)
json_string_escaped = json_string.replace('"','\\"')
print(json_string_escaped)
dataone = {"json_string": json_string_escaped}
print(dataone)


now json_string_escaped is good as showing:

{
\"name\": \"John\",
\"age\": 30,
\"city\": \"New York\"
}


now I need to attach this escaped string to new JSON. The format of single backslash and double quote is required by the REST API:

dataone = {"json_string": json_string_escaped}
print(dataone)


But that added another backslash which is not intended behavior:

{'json_string': '{\n \\"name\\": \\"John\\",\n \\"age\\": 30,\n \\"city\\": \\"New York\\"\n}'}


How to have dataone variable with single backslash and doublequote?

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