Daniel Bickett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In my (brief) experience with YAML, it seemed like there were several
> different ways of doing things, and I saw this as one of it's failures
> (since we're all comparing it to XML).
YAML looks to me to be completely insane, even compared to Python
lists. I think it would be great if the Python library exposed an
interface for parsing constant list and dict expressions, e.g.:
[1, 2, 'Joe Smith', 8237972883334L, # comment
{'Favorite fruits': ['apple', 'banana', 'pear']}, # another comment
'xyzzy', [3, 5, [3.14159, 2.71828, []]]]
I don't see what YAML accomplishes that something like the above wouldn't.
Note that all the values in the above have to be constant literals.
Don't suggest using eval. That would be a huge security hole.
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