YAML: Python's Missing Battery (Summary)

You now know where to find the missing battery in Python to read and write YAML documents. Along the way, you learned about the powerful and dangerous features found in this popular data format and how to take advantage of them with Python.

In this video course, you learned how to:

• Read and write YAML documents in Python
• Serialize Python’s built-in and custom data types to YAML
• Safely read YAML documents from untrusted sources
• Take control of parsing YAML documents at a lower-level

You also played around with The yaml document from hell by Ruud van Asseldonk.

If you’d like to continue learning, then check out:

• Python and TOML: New Best Friends
• Working With JSON Data in Python
• Automating Django Deployments with Fabric and Ansible

Looking for more YAML-related libraries? Here you go:

• ruamel.yaml
• StrictYAML
• yamllint
• yq
• shyaml

You might also want to check out these online tools:

• YAML Parser
• YAML Formatter
• YAML Validator