Re: [Yaml-core] Example request

[Kirill S. <xi...@ga...>]

Prashanth Padmanabh wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm a beginner in YAML.
> Is there an example written in python that I can follow to read a yaml 
> config file like the one below and process its data in my program. For 
> example use the data below to send an email to mail.foobar.net 
> <http://mail.foobar.net>. How do I extract the MAIL_SERVER value when 
> writing a python script?
> 
> WEBSITE:
>   - www.google.com <http://www.google.com>
>   - www.pyyaml.org <http://www.pyyaml.org>
>   - www.yahoo.com <http://www.yahoo.com>
> 
> MAIL_SERVER: mail.foobar.net <http://mail.foobar.net>
> EMAIL_ADDRESS: fo...@ba... <mailto:fo...@ba...>
> STATUS_INTERVAL_MIN: 15
> LOGFILE: webstat.log
> 

Assuming that the file 'config.yaml' contains the following data:
WEBSITE:
   - www.google.com
   - www.pyyaml.org
   - www.yahoo.com

MAIL_SERVER: mail.foobar.net
EMAIL_ADDRESS: fo...@ba...
STATUS_INTERVAL_MIN: 15
LOGFILE: webstat.log

the following program loads the configuration file and extracts the 
value of EMAIL_ADDRESS:

import yaml

config = yaml.load(open('config.yaml'))
print config['EMAIL_ADDRESS']


Thanks,
Kirill