[Distutils] comparison of configuration languages

[Wes Turner]

1. again, ConfigObj is pure Python, supports nesting, and is read/write (so
there is no need to template injectable config files (e.g., with  \n, =,
#;etc. must be escaped))

| PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/configobj/5.0.6
| Src: https://github.com/DiffSK/configobj
| Docs: https://configobj.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

2. A grammar for configparser would make this more apparent
https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/tip/Lib/configparser.py

On Sunday, May 15, 2016, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:

> On 15 May 2016 at 08:21, Ionel Cristian Mărieș <contact at ionelmc.ro
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>
> >> No need to think; the decision is made and it's TOML. I know Chris
> doesn't
> >> mean to stir up trouble, but at this point if someone wants to propose
> >> something other than TOML they are going to have to write their own PEP.
> >
> >
> > Not asking for any change but has anyone looked at libconfig? It looks
> quite
> > interesting: simple grammar and nesting support. What do you think of it?
>
> I hadn't, but its certainly irrelevant here, as vendoring it suitably
> for pip would be excruciating due to the C dependency.
>
> -Rob
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