[Python-ideas] Stdlib YAML evolution (Was: PEP 426, YAML in the stdlib and implementation discovery)

[anatoly techtonik]

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:59 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> David Mertz writes:
>
>  > I would definitely like to have a YAML library--even one with
>  > restricted function--in the standard library.
>
> Different use cases (and users) will stick at different restrictions.
> This would be endlessly debatable.  I think the only restriction that
> really makes sense is the load vs. load_unsafe restriction (and that
> should be a user decision; the "unsafe" features should be available
> to users who want them).

Short version of previous letter. "yamlish" is only for simple nested
human editable data, such as config files. Format is based on widely
popular "organic" examples found on internet and provided in previous
letter:

http://tmuxp.readthedocs.org/en/latest/examples.html
http://code.google.com/p/rietveld/source/browse/app.yaml
https://github.com/agschwender/pilbox/blob/master/provisioning/playbook.yml