version: 0.2 text: smd pdf: false — | # Differences with PyYAML

```

  If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

  > Isaac Newton (1676)

```

ruyaml is a derivative of Kirill Simonov's [PyYAML 3.11](https://bitbucket.org/xi/pyyaml) and would not exist without that excellent base to start from.

The following a summary of the major differences with PyYAML 3.11

## Defaulting to YAML 1.2 support

PyYAML supports the [YAML 1.1] standard, ruyaml supports [YAML 1.2] as released in 2009.

- YAML 1.2 dropped support for several features unquoted Yes, No, On, Off

- YAML 1.2 no longer accepts strings that start with a 0 and solely consist of number characters as octal, you need to specify such strings with 0o[0-7]+ (zero + lower-case o for octal + one or more octal characters).

- YAML 1.2 no longer supports [sexagesimals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal), so the string scalar 12:34:56 doesn't need quoting.

- / escape for JSON compatibility

- correct parsing of floating point scalars with exponentials

unless the YAML document is loaded with an explicit version==1.1 or the document starts with:

> % YAML 1.1

, ruyaml will load the document as version 1.2.

## PY2/PY3 reintegration

ruyaml re-integrates the Python 2 and 3 sources, running on Python 2.7 (CPython, PyPy), 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6 (support for 2.6 has been dropped mid 2016). It is more easy to extend and maintain as only a miniscule part of the code is Python version specific.

## Fixes

- ruyaml follows the indent keyword argument on scalars when dumping.

- ruyaml allows : in plain scalars, as long as these are not followed by a space (as per the specification)

## Testing

ruyaml is tested using [tox] and [py.test]. In addition to new tests, the original PyYAML test framework is called from within tox runs.

Before versions are pushed to PyPI, tox is invoked, and has to pass, on all supported Python versions, on PyPI as well as flake8/pep8

## API

Starting with 0.15 the API for using ruyaml has diverged allowing easier addition of new features. — !inc-raw - links.rydinc