[Distutils] moving things forward (was: wheel including files it shouldn't)

[Chris Barker]

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 3:33 AM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

> I'd actually prefer not using JSON for something that is human
> editable/writable because I think it's a pretty poor format for that case.
> It
> is overly restrictive in what it allows (for instance, no trailing comma
> gets
> me every time) and the lack of comments I think make it a poor format for
> that.
>

yup -- these are really annoying when JSON is used for a config format.

but INI pretty much sucks, too.

What about PYSON (my term) -- python literals -- could be evaluated with
ast.literal_eval to be safe, and would give us comments, and trailing
commas, and python's richer data types.

or just plain Python -- the file would be imported and we'd specify
particular variables that needed to be defined -- maybe as simple as:

config = a_big_dict_with_lots_of_stuff_in_it.

so it could be purely declarative, but users could also put code in there
to customize the configuration on the fly, too.

-CHB


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