Add an option to disable conversion of unicode chars

[fmmarzoa]

Hello!

I have a dictionary that looks like this:

translit_map = { u"\u0027": "", u"\u00C0": "A", u"\u00C1": "A", u"\u00C2": "A", u"\u00C3": "A", u"\u00C4": ["A", "AE"], u"\u00C5": ["A", "AA"], u"\u00C6": "AE", u"\u00C7": "C", ...

When this is converted, the unicode stuff is actually converted to their literal representation, like in:

 Ac={"'":D,'À':H,'Á':H,'Â':H,'Ã':H,'Ä':[H,'AE'],'Å':[H,'AA'],'Æ':'AE','Ç':O

So it'd be nice to have an option to disable this behaviour so it keeps the keys like u"\u0027", because there are some cases whether it could be needed (I have one in which I have to upload this code to a server through a web form and those non-ascii chars get converted into '?'. I have reported it to the server admin too, but anyway, it could be great if you could choose not to convert these into literal UTF-8 chars).

Thanks!
Fran

[dflook]

Hello @fmmarzoa.

You can get close to what your are looking for by using code like this:

from python_minifier import minify

with open('snippet.py', 'rb') as f:
    source = f.read()

minified = minify(source)

with open('minified.py', 'w', encoding='ascii', errors='backslashreplace') as f:
    f.write(minified)

which will output:

translit_map={"'":'','\xc0':'A','\xc1':'A','\xc2':'A','\xc3':'A','\xc4':['A','AE'],'\xc5':['A','AA'],'\xc6':'AE','\xc7':'C'}

But this will break any program that uses non-ascii unicode names, e.g.

def Á():pass