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I second that. And if people need to deal with YAML in Python, they should be using ruamel.yaml, which is a far superior library on just about every level: https://pypi.org/project/ruamel.yaml/

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Except that the author of ruamel.yaml:

refuses to use git [0]

refuses to take community submissions (except through Stack Overflow? Seems like a misuse of SO) [1]

and refuses to implement .dumps() [2].

He is difficult to work with, and any time I need to debug code that intimately deals with ruamel.yaml types, I wince.

[0] https://github.com/pycontribs/ruyaml/issues/1

[1] https://yaml.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing.html

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/63179923/15170511

Why would I care that the maintainer prefers Mercurial? The document you linked to doesn't say anything about them not taking community submissions: I think you need to scroll down further in the page. And it certainly doesn't say that you have to use SO to submit changes.

Or if you want to go really minimalist there's also https://github.com/crdoconnor/strictyaml

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