NEON is very similar to YAML. The main difference is that the NEON supports "entities"(so can be used e.g.to parse phpDoc annotations) and tab characters for indentation. NEON syntax is a little simpler.

Example of Neon code:

# neon example

name: Homer

address:

    street: 742 Evergreen Terrace
    city: Springfield

children:

    + Bart
    + Lisa
    + Maggie

entity: Column(type=integer)

To install NEON parser for Python, simply run:

pip install neon-py

Decoding NEON config files is super easy:

import neon

with open('/path/to/config.neon', 'r') as fd:
    config = neon.decode(fd.read())

• Neon sandbox
• Neon for PHP
• Neon for Javascript