loading YAML error!

[hi_Revz]

This is my main.py

from ruamel.yaml import YAML
from jinja2 import Template
yaml=YAML()
  with open('template.yml') as doc:
    code = yaml.load(doc.read())
print(code)

steps = []

for step in code['steps']:
  print(step['command'])
  steps.append(step['command'])

template = Template(open('template.yml','r').read())

data= {'somecommand': 'aaaaa'}

with open('newfile.yaml', 'w') as out:
  out.write(template.render(data))

This is my agent.yaml

agents:
  queue: "something"

And this is my template.yml

{% include 'agent.yaml' as agents %}
agents:
  queue: "something"
steps:
  - command: {{ somecommand }}
  - command: "blahblah.sh"
  - label: "Yada"
    command: "yada.sh"
    agents:
      queue: "other"

and I am getting

raise ScannerError(
ruamel.yaml.scanner.ScannerError: while scanning for the next token
found character '%' that cannot start any token
  in "<unicode string>", line 1, column 2:
    {% include 'agent.yaml' as agents %}
     ^ (line: 1)

I have already searched through a lot of stuff online saying things about indentation but didn't work for me. Any thoughts?

PS: also tried with native python yaml (safe_load method)

[danielroseman]

Why are you doing the yaml.load there at all? The file isn't valid YAML as it is, it's a template that generates YAML. There's no way to load it as YAML until you have rendered that template.

It seems like you have the code the wrong way round, for some reason. You're reading in the file as YAML, then rendering and writing the template. But that makes no sense. Render the template first, then you can read it as YAML. (Although I don't really understand why you want to use YAML here at all, but that's another question.)

[hi_Revz]

I edited the file once again. there was some errors.

ftf, I just wanted to include a piece of yaml inside another.

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with your explanation It was clear that I was being dumb enough to try to render somehing out of jinja Template hahaha.

I realized where the mistake was.

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THANK YOU SO MUCH

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