ymlref: load Yaml documents with possibility to resolve references.

ymlref is a library that allows you to load Yaml documents and resolve JSON-pointer references inside them.

Usage example

import ymlref


DOCUMENT = """

authors:
  shakespear:
    first_name: William
    last_name: Shakespear
  dostoevsky:
    first_name: Fyodor
    last_name: Dostoevsky
books:
   - title: Makbet
     author:
       $ref: "#/authors/shakespear"
   - title: Crime and punishment
     author:
       $ref: "#/authors/dostoevsky"
"""

doc = ymlref.loads(DOCUMENT)
print('Books in document: \n')
for book in doc['books']:
    print(book['title'])
    print('Author: ' + book['author']['first_name'] + ' ' + book['author']['last_name'])
    print('---')

Exposed API

ymlref provides two functions: load and loads. The first one loads document from file-like object, while the second one loads document from str object.