On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:25:00 -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote: > >> FWIW, the creator of the many .ini format(s), Microsoft, no longer >> recommends using .ini files. > > That's because they want people to use the registry. > > INI files are simple, easy to parse, lightweight, and human readable and > human writable using nothing more than a text editor. For many purposes, > they are perfectly fine. As I see it, the biggest problems with INI files > are: > > * the INI file module that comes with Python is quite primitive; > > * there are many slightly different behaviours you might want in an INI > file, and no clean or obvious way to tell which one you are dealing with > just from the file.
More to the point, there are many dialects of ini files, and nothing more than a defacto standard for how they should work. They also stand out like a sore thumb on anything but Windows, and look a bit anachronistic on Windows. But I don't hate ini files - I just think they aren't that clearly a great choice. If you want to use them, fine. If you recommend them, fine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
