将Unicode字符打印为python对象内的转义序列

Question

I am using python 2.7.13. My python script generates a dictionary, which contains Hebrew.

The code is as follows,

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

val = "אבג".decode('utf-8')
print val
dict = {
        'attributes' : {
        'OBJECTID_1' : 1,
        'LOCID' : val
         }
}
print dict

The results are as follows,

אבג
{'attributes': {'LOCID': u'\u05d0\u05d1\u05d2', 'OBJECTID_1': 1}}

The first result shows as expected, since we use 'print'. However, in the dictionary I created, the Hebrew shows as unicode.

Is there anyway to display actual Hebrew in my dictionary? Or is this expected?

Thanks

Answer 1

In python2, when you print out a list, you end up printing the repr of the contents of that list.

In python3, a string's repr is the same as its str return value. You can observe this below:

Python2

>>> val = "אבג".decode('utf-8')
>>> val         # displays repr value
u'\u05d0\u05d1\u05d2'
>>> print val   # displays str value
אבג

And, as mentioned,

>>> print [val]
[u'\u05d0\u05d1\u05d2']

Constrasting with python3, str objects do not have a decode function - they are already decoded.

>>> val = "אבג"
>>> val
'אבג'
>>> print(val)
אבג
>>> print([val])
['אבג']

You can see this is why it works now.

For your problem, if you want to view the character as it is when you print the dict, you can do this:

print dict['LOCID']

Side note, do not use dict to name variables since it shadows the very important builtin class you are using.