Load YAML as nested objects instead of dictionary in Python

Question

I have a configuration file in YAML that is currently loaded as a dictionary using yaml.safe_load. For convenience in writing my code, I\'d prefer to load it as a set of nes

Answer 1

Found a handy library to do exactly what I need: https://github.com/Infinidat/munch

import yaml
from munch import Munch
mydict = yaml.safe_load("""
a: 1
b:
- q: "foo"
  r: 99
  s: 98
- x: "bar"
  y: 97
  z: 96
c:
  d: 7
  e: 8
  f: [9,10,11]
""")
mymunch = Munch(mydict)

(I had to write a simple method to recursively convert all subdicts into munches but now I can navigate my data with e.g.

>>> mymunch.b.q
"foo"