Philipp A. <flying-sheep at ...> writes: > it should if the YAML document starts with%YAML 1.2--- And if the library supports 1.2, which is what I was getting at. In [1], support for YAML 1.1 is asserted, but nothing is said about YAML 1.2. Regards, Vinay Sajip [1] http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML