diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 4947943af..312b28df9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -21,3 +21,4 @@ MANIFEST
 .coverage
 .tox
 .DS_Store
+.idea/*
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/djangorestframework/parsers.py b/djangorestframework/parsers.py
index 5f19c521b..41f15aa3b 100644
--- a/djangorestframework/parsers.py
+++ b/djangorestframework/parsers.py
@@ -108,7 +108,8 @@ if yaml:
             except ValueError, exc:
                 raise ErrorResponse(status.HTTP_400_BAD_REQUEST,
                                     {'detail': 'YAML parse error - %s' % unicode(exc)})
-
+else:
+    YAMLParser = None
 
 class PlainTextParser(BaseParser):
     """
@@ -167,3 +168,9 @@ class MultiPartParser(BaseParser):
                                 {'detail': 'multipart parse error - %s' % unicode(exc)})
         return django_parser.parse()
 
+DEFAULT_PARSERS = ( JSONParser,
+                    FormParser,
+                    MultiPartParser )
+
+if YAMLParser:
+    DEFAULT_PARSERS += (YAMLParser,)
diff --git a/djangorestframework/views.py b/djangorestframework/views.py
index eea3b97ad..c25bb88f6 100644
--- a/djangorestframework/views.py
+++ b/djangorestframework/views.py
@@ -44,9 +44,7 @@ class View(ResourceMixin, RequestMixin, ResponseMixin, AuthMixin, DjangoView):
     """
     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.