Full View PEP 391 is, I believe, ready for review. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0391/ I've also worked up an implementation, though not yet checked it in: it's available as a module "dictconfig.py" with accompanying unit tests in "test_dictconfig.py", at: http://bitbucket.org/vinay.sajip/dictconfig I believe I have incorporated into the PEP comments from people both here and on python-list. There have been comments in favour of the proposal, no objections to the proposal as a whole, and some questions and objections about specific details. I believe I have addressed these with changes to the PEP. Discussion threads on python-dev: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-October/092695.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-October/092782.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-October/093062.html And on python-list: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2009-October/1223658.html http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2009-October/1224228.html There hasn't been a *huge* amount of discussion, but as it's a niche topic I suppose that's fair enough. I'm ready to actually integrate these changes in the core logging package. As I understand it, the next step is to put the PEP forward for review, which is why I'm sending this mail. I've already sent an equivalent mail to the PEP editors: David Goodger suggested I incorporate the above links (done) and Brett Cannon suggested I send this to python-dev - also, now, done. Looking forward to the feedback! Regards, Vinay Sajip