pyyaml is producing undesired !!python/unicode output
Inspired by the accepted answer, that safe_dump can produce the expected result, I checked the source of python2.7/site-packages/yaml/representer.py, and found that the Representer for dump and safe_dump are using different represent functions for unicode.
And the represent function can be overwritten with add_representer. So you can just get the represent function from the SafeRepresenter, and register it to be used in dump.
I have to do this as I have some custom types, so I cannot use safe_dump.
The code is as following:
def represent_unicode(dumper, data): return dumper.represent_scalar(u'tag:yaml.org,2002:str', data)yaml.add_representer(unicode, represent_unicode)My command to produce the output:
yaml.dump(yml, encoding='utf-8', allow_unicode=True, default_flow_style=False, explicit_start=True)python version is 2.7.5, PyYMAL is 3.10.