Re: : in the flow context for PyYAML and SnakeYAML

libyaml, which I thought was following the spec, quite specifically does 
not require a ':' in a "flow" context. There is code in there that 
literally says it is doing this, so somebody thought it was correct.

Here is a conversion using the event api of libyaml to read and write 
some 1-line files (the output has "flow" and all quoting forced on to 
make it understandable):

	a:1	-> "a:1"
	a: 1	-> {"a": "1"}
	{a:1}	-> {"a": "1"}
	{a: 1}	-> {"a": "1"}

So libyaml is doing what I think is being requested.

Kirill Simonov wrote:
> Hi Andrey,
> 
> On 08/18/2010 03:13 AM, Andrey Somov wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> according to http://pyyaml.org/wiki/YAMLColonInFlowContext colon in
>> the flow context does not work according to the 1.1 specification in
>> PyYAML.
>> PyYAML follows "pythonic" way instead of implementing language-neutral
>> solution. It causes compatibility issues with other languages.
>> There is an issue reported for SnakeYAML to address the problem -
>> http://code.google.com/p/snakeyaml/issues/detail?id=78
>>
>> The ticket for PyYAML is created but there is no progress -
>> http://pyyaml.org/ticket/158
>>
>> I am not really in favor to fix the problem only in SnakeYAML as we
>> find it important that any valid document for SnakeYAML is always
>> valid for PyYAML and vice versa.

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