Hi all, I need to generate some java .properties files in Python (2.6 / 2.7). It's a simple format to store key/value pairs e.g.
blue=bleu green=vert red=rouge The key/value are unicode strings. The annoying thing is that the file is encoded in ISO 8859-1, with all non Latin1 characters escaped in the form \uHHHH (same as how unicode characters are escaped in Python). I thought I could use the "unicode_escape" codec. But it doesn't work because it escapes Latin1 characters with escape sequences of the form \xHH, which is not valid in a java .properties file. Is there a simple way to achieve this? I could do something like this: def encode(u): """encode a unicode string in .properties format""" return u"".join(u"\\u%04x" % ord(c) if ord(c) > 0xFF else c for c in u).encode("latin_1") but it would be quite inefficient as I have many to generate. -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list