The from_yaml function is intended to be able to parse a yaml config for astropy quantities, however this fails as when the yaml object is created here, it is created as a ruamel.yaml.comments.CommentedSeq object. When this object is parsed by the deserialize_all_objects function, it checks if the object is a dict or OrderedDict instance before attempting to parse any entries intended as astropy quantities. As the object is not an instance of either type, it will never be parsed.
In [1]: from panoptes.utils.serializers import from_yaml
In [2]: with open('./fields.yaml', 'r') as f:
...: c = from_yaml(f.read())
...:
In [3]: type(c)
Out[3]: ruamel.yaml.comments.CommentedSeq
In [4]: isinstance(c, (dict, OrderedDict))
Out[4]: False
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from_yamlfunction is intended to be able to parse a yaml config for astropy quantities, however this fails as when the yaml object is created here, it is created as aruamel.yaml.comments.CommentedSeqobject. When this object is parsed by thedeserialize_all_objectsfunction, it checks if the object is adictorOrderedDictinstance before attempting to parse any entries intended as astropy quantities. As the object is not an instance of either type, it will never be parsed.