I’m passing the result of the execution of a command to python as input, like so: This works fine when executing from the command line, however I’m now trying to edit the file using PyCharm. Therefore I need the escaped version of the result of this command which I can paste into PyCharm’s debug configuration, as I can’t execute the
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Saving UTF-8 texts with json.dumps as UTF-8, not as a u escape sequence
Sample code (in a REPL): Output: The problem: it’s not human readable. My (smart) users want to verify or even edit text files with JSON dumps (and I’d rather not use XML). Is there a way to serialize objects into UTF-8 JSON strings (instead of uXXXX)? Answer Use the ensure_ascii=False switch to json.dumps(), then encode the value to UTF-8 manually:
How to remove escape sequence like ‘xe2’ or ‘x0c’ in python
I am working on a project (content based search), for that I am using ‘pdftotext’ command line utility in Ubuntu which writes all the text from pdf to some text file. But it also writes bullets, now when I’m reading the file to index each word, it also gets some escape sequence indexed(like ‘x01’).I know its because of bullets(•). I
How can I remove the ANSI escape sequences from a string in python
Here is a snippet that includes my string. The string was returned from an SSH command that I executed. I can’t use the string in its current state because it contains ANSI standardized escape sequences. How can I programmatically remove the escape sequences so that the only part of the string remaining is ‘examplefile.zip’. Answer Delete them with a regular