Fixed #12914 -- Use yaml faster C implementation when available

Thanks Beuc for the report and the initial patch.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/django/core/serializers/pyyaml.py b/django/core/serializers/pyyaml.py
index 4c11626bad..27239e0445 100644
--- a/django/core/serializers/pyyaml.py
+++ b/django/core/serializers/pyyaml.py
@@ -14,8 +14,15 @@ from django.core.serializers.python import Serializer as PythonSerializer
 from django.core.serializers.python import Deserializer as PythonDeserializer
 from django.utils import six
 
+# Use the C (faster) implementation if possible
+try:
+    from yaml import CSafeLoader as SafeLoader
+    from yaml import CSafeDumper as SafeDumper
+except ImportError:
+    from yaml import SafeLoader, SafeDumper
 
-class DjangoSafeDumper(yaml.SafeDumper):
+
+class DjangoSafeDumper(SafeDumper):
     def represent_decimal(self, data):
         return self.represent_scalar('tag:yaml.org,2002:str', str(data))
 
@@ -58,7 +65,7 @@ def Deserializer(stream_or_string, **options):
     else:
         stream = stream_or_string
     try:
-        for obj in PythonDeserializer(yaml.safe_load(stream), **options):
+        for obj in PythonDeserializer(yaml.load(stream, Loader=SafeLoader), **options):
             yield obj
     except GeneratorExit:
         raise