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Python – downloading a yaml file from github using PyGitHub get_contents and trying to convert it to dict

January 12, 2022

I have a python script that downloads file_content from repo using repo.get_contents.
so I have used –

contents = repo.get_contents(
    './some_file.yaml', ref='master').decoded_content.decode()

And now I have the content of the yaml file as a string of –
\nkey1:\n-a\n-b-n-c\nkey2

How can I convert it to dict with keys and values?
Can I pull it to dict using the function? or convert this string somehow?

>Solution :

It might be a duplicated question. how-do-i-parse-a-yaml-string-with-python

import yaml

dct = yaml.safe_load('''
name: John
age: 30
automobiles:
- brand: Honda
  type: Odyssey
  year: 2018
- brand: Toyota
  type: Sienna
  year: 2015
''')
assert dct['name'] == 'John'
assert dct['age'] == 30
assert len(dct["automobiles"]) == 2
assert dct["automobiles"][0]["brand"] == "Honda"
assert dct["automobiles"][1]["year"] == 2015