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Overview
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``ruamel.yaml`` is a YAML 1.2 loader/dumper package for Python. It is a
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:
- comments
- block style and key ordering are kept, so you can diff the round-tripped
source
- flow style sequences ( 'a: b, c, d') (based on request and test by
Anthony Sottile)
- anchor names that are hand-crafted (i.e. not of the form``idNNN``)
- `merges <http://yaml.org/type/merge.html>`_ in dictionaries are preserved
This preservation is normally not broken unless you severely alter
the structure of a component (delete a key in a dict, remove list entries).
Reassigning values or replacing list items, etc., is fine.
For the specific 1.2 differences see :ref:`yaml-1-2-support`
Although individual indentation of lines is not preserved, you can
specify both indentation (counting for this does **not** include the
dash for a sequence element) and specific offset of block sequence
dashes within that indentation. There is a utility function that tries
to determine the correct values for ``indent`` and
``block_seq_indent`` that can then be passed to the dumper.
Although ``ruamel.yaml`` still allows most of the PyYAML way of doing
things, adding features required a different API then the transient
nature of PyYAML's ``Loader`` and ``Dumper``. Starting with
``ruamel.yaml`` version 0.15.0 this new API gets introduced. Old ways
that get in the way will be removed, after first generating warnings
on use, then generating an error. In general a warning in version 0.N.x will become an
error in 0.N+1.0
Many of the bugs filed against PyYAML, but that were never
acted upon, have been fixed in ``ruamel.yaml``
.. include:: links.rst
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