[Baypiggies] configuration parser using python modules?

[Neil]

I like YAML too. I feel like JSON is only slightly better than XML as
for being human editable (assuming its been pretty printed, otherwise
a huge JSON document can be worse off as far as readability goes
compared to XML) -- as it doesn't allow adding comments (which I think
is very important for configuration files) and it barfs on things like
a trailing comma on a list or hash definitions.

-neil

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Brent Tubbs <brent.tubbs at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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