From http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAMLDocumentation:
add_path_resolver(tag, path, kind) adds a path-based implicit tag resolver. A path is a list of keys that form a path to a node in the representation graph. Paths elements can be string values, integers, or None. The kind of a node can be str, list, dict, or None.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import yaml
class Person(yaml.YAMLObject):
yaml_tag = '!person'
def __init__(self, name):
self.name = name
yaml.add_path_resolver('!person', ['Person'], dict)
data = yaml.load("""
Person:
name: XYZ
""")
print data
# {'Person': <__main__.Person object at 0x7f2b251ceb10>}
print data['Person'].name
# XYZ