YAML key consisting of a list of elements

Question

I need to have a list of elements as a key, so that I can check if several conditions are met. Example (don\'t know if this is possible and if the syntax is correct):

Answer 1

In addition to Anthon's answer, here is how you can do it with PyYaml:

mapping:
  c_id:
    !!python/tuple [pak, gb]: '4711'
    !!python/tuple [pak, ch]: '4712'
    !!python/tuple [pak]: '4713'

The trick is to tell PyYaml that you want to load the keys into a tuple (since a list cannot be used as dict key). There is no way to do this implicitly, but this does not mean that it is not possible.

Explicit keys may be more readable in this case:

mapping:
  c_id:
    ? !!python/tuple [pak, gb]
    : '4711'
    ? !!python/tuple [pak, ch]
    : '4712'
    ? !!python/tuple [pak]
    : '4713'

This example is semantically equivalent to the first one.