[dozzie]

No comments, too tedious to write all the delimiters (mainly string quotes, but lists and hashes add to that), and trailing comma is disallowed, so moving list or hash elements around needs more attention.

> Is YAML one of those things that proper professional programmers need but us amateurs can botch our way around?

I really don't understand this attitude. If you already call `json.load(some_string)', there's no difference to change to `yaml.load(some_string)' and go with that. YAML data model is similar to JSON.

JSON is a format mainly for machines, and is somewhat readable for humans. YAML is the reverse: it's mainly for humans, but can be processed by machines.