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pyyaml_quickstart_load_and_dump_yaml_string.py

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Basic example of loading a YAML string into a Python dictionary and dumping it

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pyyaml_quickstart_load_and_dump_yaml_string.py
1import yaml
2
3# A sample YAML document
4yaml_data = """
5name: Quickstart Example
6tools:
7  - python
8  - pyyaml
9version: 1.0
10"""
11
12# Load YAML into a Python dictionary
13data = yaml.safe_load(yaml_data)
14
15# Print the loaded data
16print("Loaded Data:", data)
17print("Project Name:", data['name'])
18
19# Dump Python dictionary back into a YAML-formatted string
20output = yaml.dump(data, default_flow_style=False)
21print("\nDumped YAML:\n", output)