Using Yaml format in Fixtures

[amiroff]

By default, loaddata command only looks for xml and json fixtures.
Documentation at ​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/initial-data/#providing-initial-data-with-fixtures also mentions YAML format as being supported out of the box.

That is not true and misleading. At least on windows, PyYaml (​http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML) must be installed on system for Django to look for .yaml files in fixture directories.

I think that should be documented, because new users can waste lots of hours wondering why their fixtures do not get loaded.

Also, using loaddata with --verbosity=2 can help diagnosing the problem. Mentioning this on documentation page could be a good step.

[James Bennett]

This is already fixed in the refactored docs: ​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/serialization/#notes-for-specific-serialization-formats