Hi folks:
I'm trying to define a short function that will import yaml data into
a python dictionary. I am able to do this by dumping my data into a
temporary file and then importing it with yaml.load. I would like to
see if I can eliminate the temporary file and import the data
directly.
This works fine:
import yaml
import os
def grabfacts():
''' This function grabs facter data and sucks it into a dictionary
called dataMap '''
os.system('facter --yaml > /tmp/sysdata.yaml')
f = open('/tmp/sysdata.yaml')
dataMap = yaml.load(f)
f.close()
Is there an easy way to do this without writing to a temporary file?
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