Converting a YAML file to JSON object in Python

The PyYAML library is intended for this purpose

pip install pyyaml

import yaml
import json
with open("example.yaml", 'r') as yaml_in, open("example.json", "w") as json_out:
    yaml_object = yaml.safe_load(yaml_in) # yaml_object will be a list or a dict
    json.dump(yaml_object, json_out)

Notes: PyYAML only supports the pre-2009, YAML 1.1 specification.
ruamel.yaml is an option if YAML 1.2 is required.

pip install ruamel.yaml