oyaml_ordered_dict_yaml_serialization_quickstart.py

1import oyaml as yaml
2from collections import OrderedDict
3
4# oyaml is a drop-in replacement for PyYAML
5# It ensures that regular dicts and OrderedDicts are dumped in the order they were created
6
7data = OrderedDict([
8    ('first', 1),
9    ('second', 2),
10    ('third', 3),
11])
12
13# Dumping data to a YAML string
14yaml_string = yaml.dump(data, default_flow_style=False)
15print(yaml_string)
16
17# Loading data back from a YAML string
18# On Python 3.7+, regular dicts are ordered by default
19loaded_data = yaml.safe_load(yaml_string)
20print(loaded_data)