Re: PyYAML multi-line strings

Hello everyone,

I haven't received a reply to the message below.  Maybe it was sent at
an inopportune moment (everybody still celebrating)?  Anyway, the
problem still remains.  I've tried using variations of yaml.dump(data,
encoding=...) but under both Python 2 and 3 the result stays the same.
I could report this as a PyYAML bug but if possible I'd prefer to get
some feedback from the list first.

Thanks,

Joe

On 02/01/13 15:32, Joe Abbate wrote:
> I have a slightly different problem, reported by someone who is using
> Spanish accented characters.  The data is stored in a UTF-8 encoded
> Postgres database and fetched into Python.  Under Python2, this caused
> an infamous UnicodeError: ascii codec can't encode.  Under Python3,
> there was no error but the string wasn't shown in block style.
> 
> So I now decode the string from utf_8 into unicode under Python2 and use
> a class the expects Python2 'unicode' class.  Now the behavior under
> Python2 is the same as Python3: no error but no block style either.
> 
> Here is some sample output, one with an accent, the other without:
> 
>   view tfilm:
>     definition: " SELECT film.film_id, film.title,\n        CASE\n
>       WHEN\
>       \ film.description IS NULL THEN 'Jur\xEDdico'::text\n
> ELSE film.description\n\
>       \        END AS description\n   FROM film;"
>   view tfilm_noaccent:
>     definition: |2-
>        SELECT film.film_id, film.title,
>               CASE
>                   WHEN film.description IS NULL THEN 'Juridico'::text
>                   ELSE film.description
>               END AS description
>          FROM film;
> 
> Is the problem because pyyaml can't handle the \xED embedded in the
> string or is it something else?  If the former, is there some workaround?
> 
> Happy 2013!
> 
> Joe

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