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Dumping a string that contains unicode characters as json produces weird unicode escape sequences:
text = "⌂⚘いの法嫁"
print(text) # output: ⌂⚘いの法嫁
import json
json_text = json.dumps(text)
print(json_text) # output: "\u2302\u2698\u3044\u306e\u6cd5\u5ac1"
I'd like to get this output instead:
"⌂⚘いの法嫁"
How can I dump unicode characters as characters instead of escape sequences?
Call json.dumps with ensure_ascii=False:
json_string = json.dumps(json_dict, ensure_ascii=False)
On Python 2, the return value will be unicode instead of str, so you might want to encode it before doing anything else with it.
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I'm trying to dump everything from scrapy crawler into json file but äåö changes to something like \u00f6.
How do I fix that?
Use ensure_ascii=False
Ex:
import json
data = {"Hello": "äåö"}
print(json.dumps(data, ensure_ascii=False)) # --> {"Hello": "äåö"}
Note: If ensure_ascii is true (the default), the output is guaranteed to have all incoming non-ASCII characters escaped. If ensure_ascii is false, these characters will be output as-is.
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getting bytes from unicode string in python
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I have a string which I get from a function
>>> example = Some_function()
This Some_function return a very long combination of Unicode and ASCII string like 'gn1\ud123a\ud123\ud123\ud123\ud919\ud123\ud123'
My Problem is that when I try to convert this unicode string to bytes it gives me an error that \ud919 cannot be encoded by utf-8. I tried :
>>> further=bytes(example,encoding='utf-8')
Note: I cannot ignore this \ud919. If there is a way to solve this problem or how can I convert 'gn1\ud123a\ud123\ud123\ud123\ud919\ud123\ud123' to 'gn1\ud123a\ud123\ud123\ud123\\ud919\ud123\ud123' to treat \ud919 as simple string not unicode.
based on the version.
print type(unicode_string), repr(unicode_string) Python 3.x : print type(unicode_string), ascii(unicode_string)
\ud919 is a surrogate character, one does not simply convert it. Use surrogatepass flag:
'gn1\ud123a\ud123\ud123\ud123\ud919\ud123\ud123'.encode('utf-8', 'surrogatepass')
>>> b'gn1\xed\x84\xa3a\xed\x84\xa3\xed\x84\xa3\xed\x84\xa3\xed\xa4\x99\xed\x84\xa3\xed\x84\xa3'
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I want to log requests responses to file, but when i use getLogger().warning(string), following string is being unicode-escaped
Example:
r = requests.post(...)
result = json.loads(r.text) # Now result == '{"error": "Ошибка 1"}'
getLogger().warning(json.dumps(result))
This code will write to log file unicode-escaped string, where "Ошибка" will be written like "\u0417\u0430\u043a\u0430\u0437..."
But i want to see these characters as is.
Your issue is that json.dumps is converting the Unicode to ASCII by escaping it. This can be avoided by adding an extra parameter, ensure_ascii=False, to the .dumps function:
r = requests.post(...)
result = json.loads(r.text) # Now result == {"error": "Ошибка 1"}
getLogger().warning(json.dumps(result, ensure_ascii=False))
You can check the documentation for other arguments to the json.dumps function.
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I have a dictionary containing arabic words like
data = [{'name': 'آدَم'}, {'name': 'آزَر'}]
print(json.dumps(data), file=open('data.json', 'a', encoding="utf-8"))
Output:
[{"name": "\u0622\u0632\u064e\u0631"}...]
I don't want to encode the arabic text while creating the data.json file. If I do not use json.dumps then it works fine but then it shows single quotes ' instead of double qoutes "
Pass the parameter ensure_ascii = False:
json.dumps(data, ensure_ascii = False)
Documentation here.
If ensure_ascii is true (the default), the output is guaranteed to have all incoming non-ASCII characters escaped. If ensure_ascii is false, these characters will be output as-is.
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Chinese and Japanese character support in python
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I have used Python to get some info through urllib2, but the info is unicode string.
I've tried something like below:
a = "\u65b9\u6cd5\uff0c\u5220\u9664\u5b58\u50a8\u5728"
print unicode(a).encode("gb2312")
a = "\u65b9\u6cd5\uff0c\u5220\u9664\u5b58\u50a8\u5728"
print a.encode("utf-8").decode("utf-8")
a = "\u65b9\u6cd5\uff0c\u5220\u9664\u5b58\u50a8\u5728"
print u""+a
a = "\u65b9\u6cd5\uff0c\u5220\u9664\u5b58\u50a8\u5728"
print str(a).decode("utf-8")
a = "\u65b9\u6cd5\uff0c\u5220\u9664\u5b58\u50a8\u5728"
print str(a).encode("utf-8")
a = "\u65b9\u6cd5\uff0c\u5220\u9664\u5b58\u50a8\u5728"
print a.decode("utf-8").encode("gb2312")
but all results are the same:
\u65b9\u6cd5\uff0c\u5220\u9664\u5b58\u50a8\u5728
And I want to get the following Chinese text:
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You need to convert the string to a unicode string.
First of all, the backslashes in a are auto-escaped:
a = "\u65b9\u6cd5\uff0c\u5220\u9664\u5b58\u50a8\u5728"
print a # Prints \u65b9\u6cd5\uff0c\u5220\u9664\u5b58\u50a8\u5728
a # Prints '\\u65b9\\u6cd5\\uff0c\\u5220\\u9664\\u5b58\\u50a8\\u5728'
So playing with the encoding / decoding of this escaped string makes no difference.
You can either use unicode literal or convert the string into a unicode string.
To use unicode literal, just add a u in the front of the string:
a = u"\u65b9\u6cd5\uff0c\u5220\u9664\u5b58\u50a8\u5728"
To convert existing string into a unicode string, you can call unicode, with unicode_escape as the encoding parameter:
print unicode(a, encoding='unicode_escape') # Prints 方法，删除存储在
I bet you are getting the string from a JSON response, so the second method is likely to be what you need.
BTW, the unicode_escape encoding is a Python specific encoding which is used to
Produce a string that is suitable as Unicode literal in Python source
code
Where are you getting this data from? Perhaps you could share the method by which you are downloading and extracting it.
Anyway, it kind of looks like a remnant of some JSON encoded string? Based on that assumption, here is a very hacky (and not entirely serious) way to do it:
>>> a = "\u65b9\u6cd5\uff0c\u5220\u9664\u5b58\u50a8\u5728"
>>> a
'\\u65b9\\u6cd5\\uff0c\\u5220\\u9664\\u5b58\\u50a8\\u5728'
>>> s = '"{}"'.format(a)
>>> s
'"\\u65b9\\u6cd5\\uff0c\\u5220\\u9664\\u5b58\\u50a8\\u5728"'
>>> import json
>>> json.loads(s)
u'\u65b9\u6cd5\uff0c\u5220\u9664\u5b58\u50a8\u5728'
>>> print json.loads(s)
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This involves recreating a valid JSON encoded string by wrapping the given string in a in double quotes, then decoding the JSON string into a Python unicode string.