[Python-ideas] PEP 426, YAML in the stdlib and implementation discovery

[Vinay Sajip]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at ...> writes:

> Note that while JSON itself doesn't handle arbitrary reference graphs,
> people actually *store* complex graph structures in JSON all the time.
> It's just that there are no standard syntax/semantics for doing so
> (logging.dictConfig, for example, uses context dependent named
> references, while jsonschema uses $ref fields).

A more generalised version of the dictConfig approach, using
JSON-serialisable dictionaries to describe more complex object graphs 
(including cross-references), is described here:

http://pymolurus.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/using-dictionaries-to-configure-objects.html

Regards,

Vinay Sajip