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