data file auto-parsing

[Thilo Ernst]

"Hilbert" <hilbert at microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<v6dtoh8c1m8333 at corp.supernews.com>...
> Hello,
> 
> Is there a parser that would convert python-like
> indented data files into data structures? Like:
>  [...]
> 
> Am I crazy?
> Thanks,
> Hilbert


YAML, www.yaml.org, should come pretty close to what you are looking 
for. 

There is a pure Python implementation available, but also a C 
extension with bindings not only for Python, but also for Ruby 
and PHP. Native implementations are available or underway for 
Perl and Java, too. 
See http://wiki.yaml.org/yamlwiki/YamlImplementations .

Looks like a nice human-readable and -writable (more so than XML-based 
formats) cross-language data representation; something to keep an eye 
upon. 

Regards, Thilo Ernst