Disable Aliases/Anchors

[engnadeau]

Expected Behaviour

• Ability to disable generated aliases and anchors (AA) in yaml.dump()

Use Case

• Tool for generating default yaml config file for an application
• Users of the generated config file should not need to know how AA work

Actual Behaviour

• No option to disable AA

Current Workaround

class NoAliasDumper(yaml.Dumper):
    def ignore_aliases(self, data):
        return True

yaml.dump(x, Dumper=NoAliasDumper)

Potential Solution

• Add a flag to yaml.dump() that switches the functionality of ignore_aliases()

[vincerubinetti]

Update on this? Should really just be a nice clean option.

I'm still doing the (imo dirty) line: yaml.Dumper.ignore_aliases = lambda *args: True from this SO post.