#!/usr/bin/python # long version of this one liner: python -c 'import yaml,sys;yaml.safe_load(sys.stdin)' < yamltest.txt import yaml import sys if len(sys.argv) > 1: check_file = open(sys.argv[1]) else: check_file = sys.stdin try: yaml.safe_load(check_file) except yaml.scanner.ScannerError as e: sys.exit('Invalid YAML:\n%s' % str(e)) print('valid YAML')