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diff --git a/docs/howto/initial-data.txt b/docs/howto/initial-data.txt index b22cf73d34..6e7fc3ff2a 100644 --- a/docs/howto/initial-data.txt +++ b/docs/howto/initial-data.txt @@ -21,10 +21,12 @@ Providing initial data with fixtures A fixture is a collection of data that Django knows how to import into a database. The most straightforward way of creating a fixture if you've already got some data is to use the :djadmin:`manage.py dumpdata <dumpdata>` command. -Or, you can write fixtures by hand; fixtures can be written as XML, YAML, or -JSON documents. The :doc:`serialization documentation </topics/serialization>` -has more details about each of these supported :ref:`serialization formats -<serialization-formats>`. +Or, you can write fixtures by hand; fixtures can be written as JSON, XML or YAML +(with PyYAML_ installed) documents. The :doc:`serialization documentation +</topics/serialization>` has more details about each of these supported +:ref:`serialization formats <serialization-formats>`. + +.. _PyYAML: http://www.pyyaml.org/ As an example, though, here's what a fixture for a simple ``Person`` model might look like in JSON: |