How do I use python YAMLObject to_yaml and from_yaml?

Matthew Wilson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.yaml.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I've got a subclass of yaml.YAMLObject named Scratch and I want any
instance of Scratch to be able to render itself as yaml.  I figured I
could just call from_yaml, but this is a classmethod!  Why should
to_yaml be a classmethod?  I want to output yaml based on the
variables on the instance.

For Scratch.from_yaml, I can't figure out how to feed it the right
stuff to get it to take in a string of yaml and make an instance of
Scratch.

I know I can use yaml.dump and yaml.load, but I want these to be
methods on my class.

I'm sure there's very smart reasons for this design, but I need some
help understanding how to use it.


Matt

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