version: 0.2 text: smd pdf: false — | # Installing

Make sure you have a recent version of pip and setuptools installed. The later needs environment marker support (setuptools>=20.6.8) and that is e.g. bundled with Python 3.4.6 but not with 3.4.4. It is probably best to do:

> pip install -U pip setuptools wheel

in your environment (virtualenv, (Docker) container, etc) before installing ruyaml.

ruyaml itself should be installed from [PyPI] using:

> pip install ruyaml

If you want to process jinja2/YAML templates (which are not valid YAML with the default jinja2 markers), do pip install ruyaml[jinja2] (you might need to quote the last argument because of the [])

There also is a commandline utility yaml available after installing:

> pip install ruyaml.cmd

that allows for round-trip testing/re-indenting and conversion of YAML files (JSON,INI,HTML tables)

## Optional requirements

If you have the the header files for your Python executables installed then you can use the (non-roundtrip), but faster, C loader and emitter.

On Debian systems you should use:

> sudo apt-get install python3-dev

you can leave out python3-dev if you don't use python3

For CentOS (7) based systems you should do:

> sudo yum install python-devel

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