On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 19:41 -0800, alex23 wrote: > On Feb 15, 9:06 am, Steven D'Aprano <steve > +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > 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. > > [...] > > > Rant: what I *really hate* is when people use XML just because XML is the > > in-thing, not because they need it. > > Could it possibly be then that people use XML because a) the support > is better and b) the behaviour is more predictable? That sounds more > like good tool choice than faddism. But why is the support better? ... faddism.
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