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Allow colon in a plain scalar in a flow context (#45)
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* Allow colon in a plain scalar in a flow context

* Restore behavior of flow mapping with empty value
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dbeer1 authored and sigmavirus24 committed Feb 8, 2017
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16 changes: 5 additions & 11 deletions lib/yaml/scanner.py
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Expand Up @@ -1272,7 +1272,7 @@ def scan_flow_scalar_breaks(self, double, start_mark):
def scan_plain(self):
# See the specification for details.
# We add an additional restriction for the flow context:
# plain scalars in the flow context cannot contain ',', ':' and '?'.
# plain scalars in the flow context cannot contain ',' or '?'.
# We also keep track of the `allow_simple_key` flag here.
# Indentation rules are loosed for the flow context.
chunks = []
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while True:
ch = self.peek(length)
if ch in u'\0 \t\r\n\x85\u2028\u2029' \
or (not self.flow_level and ch == u':' and
self.peek(length+1) in u'\0 \t\r\n\x85\u2028\u2029') \
or (self.flow_level and ch in u',:?[]{}'):
or (ch == u':' and
self.peek(length+1) in u'\0 \t\r\n\x85\u2028\u2029'
+ (u',[]{}' if self.flow_level else u''))\
or (self.flow_level and ch in u',?[]{}'):
break
length += 1
# It's not clear what we should do with ':' in the flow context.
if (self.flow_level and ch == u':'
and self.peek(length+1) not in u'\0 \t\r\n\x85\u2028\u2029,[]{}'):
self.forward(length)
raise ScannerError("while scanning a plain scalar", start_mark,
"found unexpected ':'", self.get_mark(),
"Please check http://pyyaml.org/wiki/YAMLColonInFlowContext for details.")
if length == 0:
break
self.allow_simple_key = False
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16 changes: 5 additions & 11 deletions lib3/yaml/scanner.py
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Expand Up @@ -1266,7 +1266,7 @@ def scan_flow_scalar_breaks(self, double, start_mark):
def scan_plain(self):
# See the specification for details.
# We add an additional restriction for the flow context:
# plain scalars in the flow context cannot contain ',', ':' and '?'.
# plain scalars in the flow context cannot contain ',' or '?'.
# We also keep track of the `allow_simple_key` flag here.
# Indentation rules are loosed for the flow context.
chunks = []
Expand All @@ -1285,18 +1285,12 @@ def scan_plain(self):
while True:
ch = self.peek(length)
if ch in '\0 \t\r\n\x85\u2028\u2029' \
or (not self.flow_level and ch == ':' and
self.peek(length+1) in '\0 \t\r\n\x85\u2028\u2029') \
or (self.flow_level and ch in ',:?[]{}'):
or (ch == ':' and
self.peek(length+1) in '\0 \t\r\n\x85\u2028\u2029'
+ (u',[]{}' if self.flow_level else u''))\
or (self.flow_level and ch in ',?[]{}'):
break
length += 1
# It's not clear what we should do with ':' in the flow context.
if (self.flow_level and ch == ':'
and self.peek(length+1) not in '\0 \t\r\n\x85\u2028\u2029,[]{}'):
self.forward(length)
raise ScannerError("while scanning a plain scalar", start_mark,
"found unexpected ':'", self.get_mark(),
"Please check http://pyyaml.org/wiki/YAMLColonInFlowContext for details.")
if length == 0:
break
self.allow_simple_key = False
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1 change: 0 additions & 1 deletion tests/data/colon-in-flow-context.loader-error
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This commit causes a syntax error on Python 3.2.3. Yes I know, 3.2.3 is over 9 years old, but I wanted to at least note this "regression" of sort somewhere in case others come across it. I have not tested Python 2.x.

$ python3
Python 3.2.3 (default, Nov 17 2016, 01:04:00)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import yaml
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3/yaml/__init__.py", line 8, in <module>
    from .loader import *
  File "/usr/lib/python3/yaml/loader.py", line 5, in <module>
    from .scanner import *
  File "/usr/lib/python3/yaml/scanner.py", line 1294
    + (u',[]{}' if self.flow_level else u''))\
              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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