<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On May 29, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Jabba Laci wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">The real answer here is that JSON is probably not the best choice for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">large files that get hand-edited. For data that you intend to hand-edit<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">a lot, YAML might be a better choice.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Currently the value of the second key silently overwrites the value of<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the first.<br></blockquote></blockquote><br>Thanks but how would it be different with YAML? Can YAML check duplicate keys?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Oh, I didn't mean to imply that. I was just pointing out that in general, YAML is more friendly for hand-editing than JSON. They both have the same GIGO issue.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>How to process (read) YAML files in Python?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Take a look at <a href="http://pyyaml.org/">http://pyyaml.org/</a></div><div><br></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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