I have
>>> import yaml
>>> yaml.dump(u'abc')
"!!python/unicode 'abc'\n"
But I want
>>> import yaml
>>> yaml.dump(u'abc', magic='something')
'abc\n'
What magic param forces no tagging?
I have
>>> import yaml
>>> yaml.dump(u'abc')
"!!python/unicode 'abc'\n"
But I want
>>> import yaml
>>> yaml.dump(u'abc', magic='something')
'abc\n'
What magic param forces no tagging?
You can use safe_dump
instead of dump
. Just keep in mind that it won't be able to represent arbitrary Python objects then. Also, when you load
the YAML, you will get a str
object instead of unicode
.
How about this:
def unicode_representer(dumper, uni):
node = yaml.ScalarNode(tag=u'tag:yaml.org,2002:str', value=uni)
return node
yaml.add_representer(unicode, unicode_representer)
This seems to make dumping unicode objects work the same as dumping str objects for me (Python 2.6).
In [72]: yaml.dump(u'abc')
Out[72]: 'abc\n...\n'
In [73]: yaml.dump('abc')
Out[73]: 'abc\n...\n'
In [75]: yaml.dump(['abc'])
Out[75]: '[abc]\n'
In [76]: yaml.dump([u'abc'])
Out[76]: '[abc]\n'
You need a new dumper class that does everything the standard Dumper class does but overrides the representers for str and unicode.
from yaml.dumper import Dumper
from yaml.representer import SafeRepresenter
class KludgeDumper(Dumper):
pass
KludgeDumper.add_representer(str,
SafeRepresenter.represent_str)
KludgeDumper.add_representer(unicode,
SafeRepresenter.represent_unicode)
Which leads to
>>> print yaml.dump([u'abc',u'abc\xe7'],Dumper=KludgeDumper)
[abc, "abc\xE7"]
>>> print yaml.dump([u'abc',u'abc\xe7'],Dumper=KludgeDumper,encoding=None)
[abc, "abc\xE7"]
Granted, I'm still stumped on how to keep this pretty.
>>> print u'abc\xe7'
abcç
And it breaks a later yaml.load()
>>> yy=yaml.load(yaml.dump(['abc','abc\xe7'],Dumper=KludgeDumper,encoding=None))
>>> yy
['abc', 'abc\xe7']
>>> print yy[1]
abc�
>>> print u'abc\xe7'
abcç
little addition to interjay's excellent answer, you can keep your unicode on a reload if you take care of your file encodings.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import yaml
import codecs
data = dict(key = u"abcç\U0001F511")
fn = "test2.yaml"
with codecs.open(fn, "w", encoding="utf-8") as fo:
yaml.safe_dump(data, fo)
with codecs.open(fn, encoding="utf-8") as fi:
data2 = yaml.safe_load(fi)
print ("data2:", data2, "type(data.key):", type(data2.get("key")) )
print data2.get("key")
test2.yaml contents in my editor:
{key: "abc\xE7\uD83D\uDD11"}
print outputs:
('data2:', {'key': u'abc\xe7\U0001f511'}, 'type(data.key):', <type 'unicode'>)
abcç