Sometimes, we want to parse a YAML file in Python.
In this article, we’ll look at how to parse a YAML file in Python.
How to parse a YAML file in Python?
To parse a YAML file in Python, we can use the yaml module.
To install it, we run
pip install pyyaml
Then we use it by writing
import yaml
with open("example.yaml", "r") as stream:
try:
print(yaml.safe_load(stream))
except yaml.YAMLError as exc:
print(exc)
to open the example.yaml file.
And then we call yaml.safe_load method to read the open stream.
If there’s an error with parsing the YAML code, then a yaml.YAMLError is raised and we catch it with the except block.
Conclusion
To parse a YAML file in Python, we can use the yaml module.
