pyyaml: dumping without tags

Question

I have

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

But I want

>>> import         


        

Answer 1

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):', ) abcç