Most Pythonic way to store (small) configuration
marco.nawijn at colosso.nl
marco.nawijn at colosso.nl
Tue Aug 4 14:37:57 EDT 2015
On Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at 7:06:33 PM UTC+2, Irmen de Jong wrote:
> On 4-8-2015 16:53, marco.nawijn at colosso.nl wrote:
> > Why not use Python files itself as configuration files?
>
> It could create a security risk if the config files are user-editable.
> (it will make it easy to inject code into your application)
>
> Irmen
Yes, I am aware of the security risk, but right now I am not too
worried about it. To be honest, JSON would be my preferred
configuration file format, but as others already mentioned, there is
no standard way of adding comments to a JSON file.
Marco
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