Python Desktop Server Weblog 5.12.2004

syck - a really nice and fast YAML parser

While I worked on implementing database backup in YAML for the Active Storage Framework for Python, I played around a bit with the two existing YAML parsers for Python. pyYaml - we shouldn't speak about it. It's broken. But syck is cool - it's fast, it's fully featured and did I say it's fast? Boy is it fast ...

So now YAML is the format of choice in the Active Storage Framework for Python to get data in and get data out.

In general the Active Storage Framework for Python is hopping along nicely. If you looked at the README some days ago, you might want to look again - lot's of changes in the code, many features implemented. I am quite happy with the progress of the project. Even though such a coding frenzy doesn't do good for my back ... ":-/"