loadyaml

loadyaml(filename=None, folder=None, string=None, fromfile=True, safe=False, loader=None)

Convenience function for reading a YAML file (or string).

Parameters:

• filename (str) – the file to load, or the YAML object if using positional arguments

• folder (str) – folder if not part of the filename

• string (str) – if not loading from a file, a string representation of the YAML

• fromfile (bool) – whether or not to load from file

• safe (bool) – whether to use the safe loader

• loader (Loader) – custom YAML loader (takes precedence over safe)

Returns:

the YAML object

Return type:

output (dict)

Examples:

yaml = sc.loadyaml('my-file.yaml')
yaml = sc.loadyaml(string='{"a":null, "b":[1,2,3]}')