Re: [Yaml-core] Gatting YAML into the core distributions

[Donnal W. <don...@ya...>]

(Originally I tried to send this to the list by hitting 'reply'
with a Cc: to Steve. This is my second attempt, this time copy and
paste of Yaml-core into the T0: field. Sorry if you get multiple
copies, Steve.)

--- Steve Howell <sh...@zi...> wrote:
> I am actually starting to think it's better for PyYaml not to be
> in the core now, because it's still growing.
> 
> It's better now to worry about getting PyYaml into Python
> solutions than into Python itself.

In the 'Python solution' on which I have been working for some
time, persistence is currently handled using the pickle module. I'd
like to explore using YAML instead of (or along with) pickle.
Toward that end, I have now installed PyYaml, and plan to start
experimenting with it early next week. Just to give me a quick jump
start, though, may I ask a couple of questions?

(1) How similar is the PyYaml API to that of pickle?

(2) Does PyYaml automatically use __getstate__, or will I need to
use deepcopy prior to dumping the state of a complex object?

Thanks.

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Donnal Walter
Arkansas Children's Hospital

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