For example:

yaml_str = '''
x: 1e-4
y: !ref <x> * 0.1
'''
loaded_yaml = load_hyperpyyaml(yaml_str)
print(loaded_yaml)
print(type(loaded_yaml["x"]), type(loaded_yaml["y"]))

with yaml.Loader, the output will be

{'x': '1e-4', 'y': '1e-05'}
<class 'str'> <class 'str'>

with rumel.yaml.Loader, the output will be

{'x': 0.0001, 'y': 1e-05}
<class 'float'> <class 'float'>

@pplantinga hi, could you make a quick review for this MR?

This is a known issue with pyyaml yaml/pyyaml#173 implementing the 1.1 spec instead of 1.2. To read these as floats, one could simply use 1.e-4 instead of 1e-4.

While it would be nice to have this, the approach outlined here fails the tests, and looks to me like it would take some considerable effort to get the tests to pass again, since changing the engine is a significant change. If you're willing to put that work in, more power to you, but this is not a pressing enough issue for us to solve it on our side.

This is a known issue with pyyaml yaml/pyyaml#173 implementing the 1.1 spec instead of 1.2. To read these as floats, one could simply use 1.e-4 instead of 1e-4.

While it would be nice to have this, the approach outlined here fails the tests, and looks to me like it would take some considerable effort to get the tests to pass again, since changing the engine is a significant change. If you're willing to put that work in, more power to you, but this is not a pressing enough issue for us to solve it on our side.

Hi, it seems like the Loader didn't add the constructor. I added and it passed all tests offline. Could you approve again to see if it could pass all the tests on CI?

This is an interesting solution, and I'm a little surprised that it works, but in the end it would be nice to solve #8, #12. I tried it with a working recipe, and it seems to work fine. Any objections to this change from @Gastron @TParcollet etc.?

Oh interesting that this could solve our issue. I am a little scared because this gets used so much. However, that also means that we should quite quickly find if this runs into issues in some recipes. I am ok with merging, let's just be ready to rollback in case some big issue soon comes up.