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		jasode on Jan 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Yaml document from hell >The literals off, no, and n, in various capitalizations (but not any capitalization!), are all false in yaml 1.1, while on, yes, and y are true. Fyi... I looked at PyYAML source code and the parser code omitted single-character 'y' in the regex. Previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26681295

jwilk on Jan 13, 2023 [–]

> omitted the single character options of 'y' and 'Y' but it still has 'n' and 'N'

'n'/'N' were removed already in 2006:

https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml/commit/8f9b8bed40a53c28

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