Re: [Yaml-core] [Q] PyYAML: encoding option of yaml.dump()

[Kirill S. <xi...@ga...>]

Makoto Kuwata wrote:
> I have question about encoding option of yaml.dump() of PyYAML.
> 
> I tried the following python script, and got '"\u30DD\u30B1\u30E2\u30F3"'
> as a result, thought what I expect is utf8 characters, not escaped sequence.
> 
>     import yaml
>     data = [u'\u30dd\u30b1\u30e2\u30f3']
>     print yaml.dump(data, default_flow_style=False)
>     print yaml.dump(data, default_flow_style=False, encoding='utf8')
>     ## (result)
>     ## - "\u30DD\u30B1\u30E2\u30F3"
>     ## - "\u30DD\u30B1\u30E2\u30F3"
>     ## (expected)
>     ## - "\u30DD\u30B1\u30E2\u30F3"
>     ## - XXXX  # japanese characters in utf8
> 
> Is it possible to get utf8 characters using yaml.dump() ?

By default, PyYAML does not emit non-ASCII characters unescaped.  You 
need to set the flag allow_unicode to print Japanese characters:

print yaml.dump(data, default_flow_style=False, allow_unicode=True)


Thanks,
Kirill