- How to force a unicode char escape sequence to “render” as the unicode char:
value = ‘{“name”: “Jo\u00e3o”}’
type(value)
str
value = unicode(value, ‘utf-8’).decode(‘unicode-escape’)
u’{“name”: “João”}’
- How to json.dump to utf-8 and make sure the string and text are both unicode:
value = ’{“name": “Jo\u00e3o”}’
type(value)
str
json.dumps(value, ensure_ascii=False, encoding=‘utf-8’)
u’{“name”: “João”}’
- Format strings using var names:
s3_key = ‘backups/{year}/{date_number}.zip’.format(year=lot_dt.year, date_number=lot_dt.strftime("%Y%m%d"))
- How to format currency in python (BRL):
import locale
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ‘pt_BR.utf-8’)
money = float(2564500/100)
locale.currency(money, grouping=True)
- Write on a txt zipped file:
with zipfile.ZipFile(zip_lot, mode=‘w’) as zf:
for contract in contracts:
content = ’’
fname = ‘LEN_{0}.txt’.format(contract.id)
zf.writestr(fname, content)