YAML is a data serialisation format designed for human readability, supporting data with self references. YAML 1.2 is a superset of JSON, so its tools can be used to process JSON. Use this tag for question that involve features specific to the YAML format.
YAML is a human readable data serialisation format. Its readability make it a popular choice for configuration files that have no special tools for editing.
YAML is currently at revision 1.2 (from 2009) although care must be taken that some parsers still only support version 1.1 or default to supporting its deprecated features ( octals not requiring Oo
, sexagesimals, Yes/No/On/Off as booleans).
Commandline tools that can handle YAML:
- yaml (installable by
pip install ruamel.yaml.cmd