hyperpyyaml sometimes loads scientific e notation as string

[larsrgit]

When calling hparams=load_hyperpyyaml("a: 1e-6"), hparams["a"] is a string. This can be avoided by calling hparams=load_hyperpyyaml("a: 1.0e-6") instead.

This would not be much of an issue, but when using operations on references in the yaml such as

hparams=load_hyperpyyaml(
"""
a: 0.0001
b: 10.0
c: !ref <a> / <b>
"""
)

which results in hparams["c"]='1e-5' being a string, the user has no control. Hyperpyyaml resolves the references and the devision as 1e-5 and not 1.0e-5 which results in a string and not a float.

[Gastron]

Yes, this is the same issue as discussed in #8 . See that issue for an explanation - basically it comes from the underlying PyYAML parser.

[larsrgit]

Thanks. I answered with a possible fix in the other issue and will close this one.