I have a yaml file that looks like
---
level_1: "test"
level_2: 'NetApp, SOFS, ZFS Creation'
request: 341570
---
level_1: "test"
level_2: 'NetApp, SOFS, ZFS Creation'
request: 341569
---
level_1: "test"
level_2: 'NetApp, SOFS, ZFS Creation'
request: 341568
I am able to read this correctly in Perl using YAML but not in python using YAML. It fails with the error:
expected a single document in the stream
Program:
import yaml
stram = open("test", "r")
print yaml.load(stram)
Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "abcd", line 4, in <module>
print yaml.load(stram)
File "/usr/local/pkgs/python-2.6.5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yaml/__init__.py", line 58, in load
return loader.get_single_data()
File "/usr/local/pkgs/python-2.6.5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yaml/constructor.py", line 42, in get_single_data
node = self.get_single_node()
File "/usr/local/pkgs/python-2.6.5/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yaml/composer.py", line 43, in get_single_node
event.start_mark)
yaml.composer.ComposerError: expected a single document in the stream
in "test", line 2, column 1
but found another document
in "test", line 5, column 1
The yaml documents are separated by ---
, and if any stream (e.g. a file) contains more than one document then you should use the yaml.load_all
function rather than yaml.load
. The code:
import yaml
stream = open("test", "r")
docs = yaml.load_all(stream)
for doc in docs:
for k,v in doc.items():
print k, "->", v
print "\n",
results in for the input file as provided in the question:
request -> 341570
level_1 -> test
level_2 -> NetApp, SOFS, ZFS Creation
request -> 341569
level_1 -> test
level_2 -> NetApp, SOFS, ZFS Creation
request -> 341568
level_1 -> test
level_2 -> NetApp, SOFS, ZFS Creation