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authorAnthon van der Neut <anthon@mnt.org>2020-10-15 15:37:04 +0200
committerAnthon van der Neut <anthon@mnt.org>2020-10-15 15:37:04 +0200
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derivative of Kirill Simonov's `PyYAML 3.11
<https://bitbucket.org/xi/pyyaml>`_.
-``ruamel.yaml`` supports `YAML 1.2`_ and has round-trip loaders and dumpers
-that preserves, among others:
+``ruamel.yaml`` supports `YAML 1.2`_ and has round-trip loaders and dumpers.
+A round-trip is a YAML load-modify-save sequence and ruamel.yaml tries to
+preserve, among others:
- comments
- block style and key ordering are kept, so you can diff the round-tripped