On 10/11/10 03:36, Asun Friere wrote:
On Nov 10, 2:02 pm, Christian Heimes<li...@cheimes.de> wrote:
Am 10.11.2010 03:44, schrieb Felipe Bastos Nunes:
I'd like to know too. I work with java and jdom, but I'm doing
personal things in python, and plan to go full python in the next 2
years. Xml is my first option for configuration files and simple
storages.
Don't repeat the mistakes of others and use XML as a configuration
language. XML isn't meant to be edited by humans.
Yes but configuration files are not necessarily meant to be edited by
humans either!
Having said that, I'm actually old school and prefer "setting=value"
human editable config files which are easily read into a dict via some
code something like this:
<snippetysnip>
Me too when possible, TBH if I only needed strings and there was no
pressing security issue I'd just do this...
config = {}
for line in (open("config.txt", 'r')):
if len(line) > 0 and line[0] <> "#":
param, value = line.rstrip().split("=",1)
config[param] = value
There is a place for XML settings though, they're nice and portable and
for some apps you probably don't want end users editing their
configurations by hand in a text editor anyway, you would prefer them to
use the nice consistency preserving config interface you have lovingly
built for them. You have built them a nice GUI config interface haven't
you ??? ;)
Roger
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