Install

From the command line (or with ! in a notebook cell):

pip install yamlmagic

Enable

%reload_ext yamlmagic

c.InteractiveShellApp.extensions = ['yaml_magic']

Use

The %%yaml cell magic will either act as simple parser:

%%yaml
a_toplevel_key: 1

<IPython.core.display.Javascript object>

{'a_toplevel_key': 1}

which can be accessed by the special last result variable _:

_

{'a_toplevel_key': 1}

Or will update a named variable with the parsed document:

%%yaml x
- a: 1
  b: 2

<IPython.core.display.Javascript object>

x

[{'a': 1, 'b': 2}]

By default, yaml.SafeLoader will be used, which won’t allow the powerful but dangerous (and unportable) `!python/ tags <http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAMLDocumentation#YAMLtagsandPythontypes>`__. If you’d like to use them, provide the -l (or --loader) argument with a BaseLoader subclass available via a local variable…

from yaml import Loader
class FooLoader(Loader):
    # some special things you have built
    pass

%%yaml --loader FooLoader
- a: !!python/float 1
  b: !!python/float 2

<IPython.core.display.Javascript object>

[{'a': 1.0, 'b': 2.0}]

…or dotted-notation path to a loader:

%%yaml --loader yaml.Loader
- a: !!python/float 1
  b: !!python/float 2

<IPython.core.display.Javascript object>

[{'a': 1.0, 'b': 2.0}]

Contribute

Issues and pull requests welcome!

License

yamlmagic is released as free software under the BSD 3-Clause license.

Thank

• [@tonyfast](http://robclewley.github.io) for asking for this

• [@robclewley](http://robclewley.github.io) for documentation-shaming a gist into a module