Why should I care to use YAML with Django?

[Joshua Ellis]

What purpose does it have? What kind of problem am I bound to solve in using it?

[James Schneider]

Probably for the same reasons you might use XML, CSV, or JSON; data exchange and serialization between systems. YAML is just another standardized way to encapsulate data structures so that they can be passed between systems or statically archived consistently.

You could also not care at all if you have no data requirements on other systems that use YAML.

Without more context, though, there isn't really a proper way to answer your question.

-James

On Aug 15, 2015 9:10 PM, "Joshua Ellis" <soni...@gmail.com> wrote:

What purpose does it have? What kind of problem am I bound to solve in using it?

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[Bill Freeman]

One interesting feature of YAML is the ability to have custom operators.  For example, with YAML used as a fixture, you might have an operator that turns a hex string into a MongoDB ObjectId on read, or a date string into a datetime object, meaning that you don't have to post process the data read.  Other serializers can obviously be extended as well, but it seems to have been well provided for in YAML (at least in  PyYAML).

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