If anyone wants to raid some code for simpler YAML, I wrote a version for the RethinkDB tests a long time ago: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/blob/main

If anyone wants to raid some code for simpler YAML, I wrote a version for the RethinkDB tests a long time ago: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/blob/main/test/common/parsePolyglot.py#L29 https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/blob/main/test/common... The problem I was trying to solve was that our tests involved a lot of things that looked like dicts (in fact they were), so my YAML-like parser stops parsing things when it looks like we have hit test code. This took out so much escaping, and made it easy to copy-paste tests into a REPL when you were working on the test (and vise-versa). So it looks like YAML, but without most of the features, and without the footguns.