When I load a Box from a YAML file, the floating-pont values are represented as a type from the ruamel YAML library, and not cast to the builtin float type. This resulted in a difficult bug (as without explicitly calling type() on it, it is rendered visually as a float) where these are being improperly serialised when interacting with another library, as it doesn't know how to handle them. This happens even if I convert the box to a builtin dictionary with Box.to_dict().

MRE:

Float: 0.1

import box

float = box.box_from_file('Float.yaml')

print(     float.Float )
print(type(float.Float))

outputs

0.1
<class 'ruamel.yaml.scalarfloat.ScalarFloat'>

I assume it would be more appropriate for all types from YAML/JSON/etc that can be represented as builtin to be converted as part of the process.

I would look into this further, but my debugger seems to refuse to step into the function or hit any manually-added breakpoints - I see .pyi and C wrappers, so looks like it might be implemented internally in C.

Thanks