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Asked: May 26, 20262026-05-26T07:29:29+00:00 2026-05-26T07:29:29+00:00

$ python manage.py loaddata fixtures/initial_data.yaml Problem installing fixture ‘fixtures/initial_data’: yaml is not a known

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$ python manage.py loaddata fixtures/initial_data.yaml 
Problem installing fixture 'fixtures/initial_data': yaml is not a known serialization format.
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$ python manage.py loaddata fixtures/initial_data.yml 
Problem installing fixture 'fixtures/initial_data': yml is not a known serialization format.

According to Django documentation this format should be supported, but I get the above errors. JSON on the other hand works ok.

Django version:

django.VERSION
(1, 3, 1, ‘final’, 0)

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    2026-05-26T07:29:30+00:00Added an answer on May 26, 2026 at 7:29 am

    .yaml is what you want. Make sure YAML is installed and available to Python by running:

    > pip install pyyaml
    
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