On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Brendan Miller <catph...@catphive.net> wrote: >> I'm just curious whether PyYaml is likely to end up in the standard >> library at some point? > > I don't personally have a direct answer to your question, but I can > point out that JSON and YAML are mostly compatible (JSON is almost a > perfect YAML subset) and the `json` module is already in the Python > std lib. > > Cheers, > Chris
Yes, JSON is an (I think unintentional) subset of YAML... but a fairly small subset. A list in YAML looks like --- # my list - Elem 1 - Elem 2 Whereas in JSON you have ["Elem 1", "Elem 2"]. People say JSON is a subset because YAML will also accept the JSON style syntax if you want to do something inline for convenience: --- # my list containing a sublist in the second element. - Elem 1 - ["Sub elem 1", "Sub elem 2"] But this is really a special purpose syntax in the context of YAML. I think the json module sticks everything on the same line, which isn't readable for large data structures. My impression is YAML is that is is more readable than JSON, whereas JSON is mostly for browser interop. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
