yaml yaml may be the most human friendly data serialization standard for all programming languages python yaml module is called pyaml yaml is an alternative to jsonhuman readable codeyaml is the most human readable format so much so that even its front-page content is displayed in yaml to make this point compact codein yaml we use whitespace indentation to denote structure not brackets syntax for relational datafor internal references we use anchors (&and aliases (*one of the area where it is used widely is for viewing/editing of data structuresfor example configuration filesdumping during debugging and document headers installing yaml as yaml is not built-in modulewe need to install it manually best way to install yaml on windows machine is through pip run below command on your windows terminal to install yamlpip install pyaml (windows machinesudo pip install pyaml (*nix and macon running above commandscreen will display something like below based on what' the current latest version collecting pyaml