I find Django's default YAML serializer output too repetitive, so I came up with this customized version that avoids outputting the model name for every single object, and makes the primary key into an index for the object's fields. This allows many simple model instances to be serialized as one-liners. See the module docstring for additional explanation and usage notes.
I needed the ability to serialize and deserialize my database, which contains millions of objects. The existing XML serializer encountered spurious parse errors; the JSON serializer failed to handle UTF-8 even when it was asked to; and both the JSON and YAML serializers tried to keep all the representations in memory simultaneously. This custom serializer is the only one that has done the job. It uses YAML's "stream of documents" model so that it can successfully serialize and deserialize large databases.
Tag to generate a navigation list from a YAML file. Generates a series of divs but to be more semantically correct could do a ul or dl.
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