Most Pythonic way to store (small) configuration
Dan Sommers
dan at tombstonezero.net
Mon Aug 3 00:02:54 EDT 2015
On Sun, 02 Aug 2015 16:11:14 -0500, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2015-08-02 21:54, Ben Finney wrote:
>> So, both XML and JSON should be considered write-only, and produced
>> only for consumption by a computer; they are a poor choice for
>> presenting to a human.
[snip]
> I second Ben's thoughts against XML & JSON -- they *can* be edited by
> hand, but put the onus on the user to make perfect XML/JSON. Config
> files (".ini") are more forgiving.
[snip]
> An additional option is using a sqlite database. The sqlite library
> is part of the stdlib, and advantages include being a single file,
> expandability, consistent/reliable character encoding, cross-platform
> portability, and atomicity (utilities that read/write are blocked from
> getting/creating incomplete data seen by the other file).
Well, I have at least some non-zero chance of reading and writing JSON
or XML by hand. Can the same be said for a sqlite database? ;-)
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