Tag: yaml

23 Jun

Elegant command line parsing in Python using docopt, schema, and yaml

Both for my work and personal use, I tend to develop many command-line Python scripts that are very data-driven and configurable. In Python, it's pretty trivial to use argparse to support complex argument and option structures, and then use the integration with configparser to allow one to write files that …


04 Sep

PyYAML: Include yaml files within yaml files

The official YAML spec doesn't support embedding external files inside a YAML file, a feature that can be extremely useful for maintenance of long/complex YAML files. I found this great code snippet yaml-include-snippet for including other YAML files in your top-level YAML.

However, the code above assumes the include …

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