InfluxDB returns valid JSON. You’re in a Python REPL or something that’s printing out leading us to indicate you’re working with Unicode strings: 3. An Informal Introduction to Python — Python 2.7.18 documentation
If you query with curl from the command line, you’ll see valid JSON.
You’ll need to parse that out of the result. I’m not familiar with the Python client library and I don’t know if it offers convenience methods to extract the value.
