[Python-ideas] PEP 426, YAML in the stdlib and implementation discovery

[Stefan Drees]

Am 04.06.13 16:07, schrieb Philipp A.:
> i think we should ask the main author of PyYAML if we could put a
> modified version of it into the stdlib. UNfortunately i don’t know how
> to contact him, since neither on github <https://github.com/xitology>
> nor on bitbucket <https://bitbucket.org/xi> seems to be his mail
> address, and he doesn’t seem to be active enough there that abitbucket
> message makes sense.
>
> PyYAML might not implement YAML 1.2 fully on paper, but the most useful
> part of 1.2 (parsing arbitrary JSON) works flawlessly.
>
> If we may use it, we should tweak it to suit our to-be-specified API: i
> think we all agree after the ruby debacle that calling plain load()
> should be the safe variant. also, since YAML has the concept of document
> streams, i’d propose the addition of load_iter() which yields documents
> as soon as they have finished arriving. ...

I wrote to the yaml-core mailinglist as this seems to be the best (and 
only suggested) way of contacting Kirill I could come up with:

"""
Dear Yaml-Core subscribers,

I am writing this mail to reach out to Kirill Simonov as the autohor of 
PyYAML.

This is as adviced at the current state of http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML 
under section "Development and bug reports" the best I could come up with.

As there is an interesting discussion (IMO) going on at python-ideas 
finally opening the gates for first class YAML support in the python 
stdlib I am sure, all would benefit from Kirill and others related to 
PyYAML (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyYAML/3.10) to step up and 
contribute their thoughts and hopefully suggest some ideas, about a 
featureset and  a roadmap based on the current PyYAML-State.

Good idea? Not so good idea? Please tell me what you think.
"""
All the best,

Stefan.