diff --git a/djangorestframework/parsers.py b/djangorestframework/parsers.py
index 5f19c521b..cfe8ec9ed 100644
--- a/djangorestframework/parsers.py
+++ b/djangorestframework/parsers.py
@@ -167,3 +167,9 @@ class MultiPartParser(BaseParser):
                                 {'detail': 'multipart parse error - %s' % unicode(exc)})
         return django_parser.parse()
 
+DEFAULT_PARSERS = ( JSONParser,
+                    FormParser,
+                    MultiPartParser )
+
+if YAMLParser:
+    DEFAULT_PARSERS += (YAMLParser,)
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diff --git a/djangorestframework/views.py b/djangorestframework/views.py
index 757d89db4..aedc7427b 100644
--- a/djangorestframework/views.py
+++ b/djangorestframework/views.py
@@ -40,20 +40,12 @@ class View(ResourceMixin, RequestMixin, ResponseMixin, AuthMixin, DjangoView):
     """
     List of renderers the resource can serialize the response with, ordered by preference.
     """
-    renderers = ( renderers.JSONRenderer,
-                  renderers.DocumentingHTMLRenderer,
-                  renderers.DocumentingXHTMLRenderer,
-                  renderers.DocumentingPlainTextRenderer,
-                  renderers.XMLRenderer,
-                  renderers.YAMLRenderer )
+    renderers = renderers.DEFAULT_RENDERERS
     
     """
     List of parsers the resource can parse the request with.
     """
-    parsers = ( parsers.JSONParser,
-                parsers.FormParser,
-                parsers.MultiPartParser )
-
+    parsers = parsers.DEFAULT_PARSERS
     """
     List of all authenticating methods to attempt.
     """