Hello,
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 03:41:50PM +0200, Jabba Laci wrote:
> > The real answer here is that JSON is probably not the best choice for
> > large files that get hand-edited. For data that you intend to hand-edit
> > a lot, YAML might be a better choice.
> >
> >> Currently the value of the second key silently overwrites the value of
> >> the first.
>
> Thanks but how would it be different with YAML? Can YAML check duplicate keys?
no, I think it can't,
I'm using yaml a few months ago, as I noticed, the last key
prevail.
> How to process (read) YAML files in Python? Can you give me some hints
> how to get started? All I need is read it in and create a dictionary
> of it.
import yaml
struct = yaml.load(file("yamlfile.yml" 'r'))
and struct will be a Python dictionary,
As I know, yaml modul is not part of standard Python library, but
most Linux systems has package, eg. Debian/Ubuntu has a
"python-yaml".
Cheers:
a.
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