pyyaml: dumping without tags

Question

I have

>>> import yaml
>>> yaml.dump(u\'abc\')
\"!!python/unicode \'abc\'\\n\"

But I want

>>> import         


        

Answer 1

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.