The difference in my experience is that once you know what's wrong with your whitespaces in Python, you're out of the woods. The interpreter is your friend from

The difference in my experience is that once you know what's wrong with your whitespaces in Python, you're out of the woods. The interpreter is your friend from that point onward. YAML parsers, on the other hand, give you these really strange errors that are pretty difficult to understand, and it doesn't end with whitespaces.