# HG changeset patch
# User Jeremy Thurgood <firxen@gmail.com>
# Date 1378503562 -7200
# Node ID e0d27a11f49ab6297a464164e711e9bf8dabe8b4
# Parent  70f6917cad07f978670387be6a3809c1db9feefa# Parent  a106d7e1415b625a0125b2cc8995d76f15267dcb
Bleh.

diff -r 70f6917cad07 -r e0d27a11f49a nagslang/tests/test_yamlish.py
--- a/nagslang/tests/test_yamlish.py	Fri Sep 06 23:37:55 2013 +0200
+++ b/nagslang/tests/test_yamlish.py	Fri Sep 06 23:39:22 2013 +0200
@@ -108,6 +108,14 @@
             0.7: -0.7,
         })
 
+    def test_dictish_string(self):
+        self.roundtrip({
+            'strings': [
+                'Foo: bar',
+                'Baz: qux',
+            ],
+        })
+
     def test_tuples(self):
         if self.from_pyyaml:
             raise SkipTest("Can't parse PyYAML tuples")
diff -r 70f6917cad07 -r e0d27a11f49a nagslang/yamlish.py
--- a/nagslang/yamlish.py	Fri Sep 06 23:37:55 2013 +0200
+++ b/nagslang/yamlish.py	Fri Sep 06 23:39:22 2013 +0200
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
     def _dump_basestring(self, data):
         if data in ('true', 'false', 'null'):
             return "'%s'" % data
-        if "'" in data:
+        if "'" in data or ':' in data or data.startswith('['):
             return "'%s'" % data.replace("'", "''")
         if data == '':
             return "''"
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
 class Parser(object):
     _spaces_re = re.compile(r'^(\s*)(.*)')
     _list_re = re.compile(r'^(-\s+)(.*)')
-    _dict_re = re.compile(r'^((?![{[])[^-:]+):\s?(.*)')
+    _dict_re = re.compile(r"^((?![{['])[^-:]+):\s?(.*)")
     _inline_list_re = re.compile(r"^([^',]+|(?:'')+|'.+?[^'](?:'')*')"
                                  r"(?:, (.*))?$")