How to generate java .properties files in python

[Serhiy Storchaka]

03.12.11 23:34, Arnaud Delobelle написав(ла):
> 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")

You must also encode backslash ('\\'), whitespaces and control 
characters (ord(c)<=32), '=' and ':' (key/value delimiters), '#' 
(comment) and '!'.

And don't forget characters with code >0xFFFF.