[Baypiggies] configuration parser using python modules?

[Brent Tubbs]

My peeve against ConfigParser is that if you want a list of things, you end
up faking it with some incomplete-looking syntax

[my_things]
thing1 =
thing2 =

That makes me sad.  (I'm looking at you, .hgrc.)

These days all my config files are YAML.  You get all the lists and hashes
that JSON can do, but you can leave out all the quote marks and curly
braces, which is a big plus for readability.

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Ian Zimmerman <itz at buug.org> wrote:

>
> David> app written in Python, some pub-sub stuff written in JS on Node
>
> In this case, JSON seems like an obvious choice for a config format :-P
>
> Personally, I try to just use eval(read(open(CONFFILE))) whenever
> remotely possible , guarded against surprises of course.
>
> The ConfigParser module is quite unpleasant IMO.  Particularly because the
> natural structure to hold such information is either a dictionary or an
> object with named fields, but that's not what ConfigParser gives you.
>
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