PyYAML 6.0.1

YAML parser and emitter for Python

The yaml/pyyaml repo was created 12 years ago and the last code push was 2 weeks ago.
The project is very popular with an impressive 2414 github stars!

How to Install pyyaml

You can install pyyaml using pip

pip install pyyaml

or add it to a project with poetry

poetry add pyyaml

Package Details

Author

Kirill Simonov

License

MIT

Homepage

https://pyyaml.org/

PyPi:

https://pypi.org/project/PyYAML/

Documentation:

https://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAMLDocumentation

GitHub Repo:

https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml

Classifiers

• Software Development/Libraries/Python Modules
• Text Processing/Markup

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Errors

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Code Examples

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GitHub Issues

The pyyaml package has 282 open issues on GitHub

• dump with encoding="utf8" produces "latin"-encoded bytes
• Octal numbers processed as strings
• WIP: Attempt to get pyyaml to build with cython 3.0
• Request: musllinux wheel
• Correct usage of .add_path_resolver
• PyYAML 5.3 & 6.0 – RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in comparison
• WIP keep PyYAML build working on Cython3.0.0a10+
• "AttributeError: cython_sources" with Cython 3.0.0a10
• Change License year to 2022
• Update representer.py
• cannot import name 'CLoader' from 'yaml'
• Add strict_whitespace implementation for cleaner multiline scalars
• Remove some commented code.
• Parsing of trailing TAB works differently for Python and C
• Clarify that YAML 1.2 is not supported

See more issues on GitHub