(use-modules (ice-9 popen) (ice-9 textual-ports) (json parser))

(define (yml-file->scm filename)
  (let* ((python_cmd (string-append "import sys, yaml, json; print(json.dumps(yaml.safe_load(open('" filename "'))))"))
          ; WTF? On Windows there is "py" and we need to specify the encoding, on linux there is "python3" or "python"
          ; but "python3" seems to work better. Be sure you have PyYAML installed.
          (pipe (open-pipe (string-append "PYTHONHOME='' " (if windows? "py" "python3") " -X utf8 -c \"" python_cmd "\"") OPEN_READ))
          (json (get-string-all pipe)))
    (close-pipe pipe)
    (json-string->scm json)))

(define (parse-yml-file filename) (resolve-inherits (yml-file->scm filename)))