[yoda-svn] yoda: 2 new changesets

[YODA Mercurial]

details:   https://yoda.hepforge.org/hg/yoda/rev/f10bbd8e01fe
branches:  
changeset: 1380:f10bbd8e01fe
user:      Andy Buckley <andy at insectnation.org>
date:      Fri Aug 25 17:47:42 2017 +0100
description:
Return annotations as Python native types via the yaml module if possible

details:   https://yoda.hepforge.org/hg/yoda/rev/3a1c29fcdca6
branches:  
changeset: 1381:3a1c29fcdca6
user:      Andy Buckley <andy at insectnation.org>
date:      Fri Aug 25 20:19:30 2017 +0100
description:
Add moar docs

diffs (23 lines):

--- a/pyext/yoda/include/AnalysisObject.pyx	Fri Aug 25 14:31:25 2017 +0100
+++ b/pyext/yoda/include/AnalysisObject.pyx	Fri Aug 25 20:19:30 2017 +0100
@@ -45,9 +45,18 @@
         return dict((k.lower(), self.annotation(k)) for k in self.annotations)
 
     def annotation(self, string k, default=None):
-        """Get annotation k from this object (falling back to default if not set)."""
+        """Get annotation k from this object (falling back to default if not set).
+
+        The annotation string will be automatically converted to Python
+        native types as far as possible -- more complex types are possible
+        if the yaml module is installed."""
         try:
-            return util._autotype(self.aoptr().annotation(string(k)))
+            astr = self.aoptr().annotation(string(k))
+            try:
+                import yaml
+                return yaml.load(astr)
+            except ImportError:
+                return util._autotype(astr)
         except:
             return default