load a yaml file. A human readable file type usually used for configurations

load_yaml.py

import yaml

yaml.load(open(<path_to_yaml_config>, 'r'), Loader=yaml.SafeLoader)

# convert json to yaml and back again. 
import json

with open('config.json', 'r') as file:
    configuration = json.load(file)

with open('config.yaml', 'w') as yaml_file:
    yaml.dump(configuration, yaml_file)

with open('config.yaml', 'r') as yaml_file:
    print(yaml_file.read())