Re: PyYAML multi-line strings

Hi Joe,

Sorry for a late reply.

Use yaml.dump(..., allow_unicode=True)

By default, pyyaml always escape non-ASCII characters, allow_unicode 
reverses this behavior.

Thanks,
Kirill

On 01/17/2013 03:11 PM, Joe Abbate wrote:
> 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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