On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Westley MartÃnez <aniko...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Well...: 1) XML was one of the first such interchange formats, so it naturally got some press; it was an idea whose time had come. It's widely accepted that sometimes a first mover gains an advantage over follow-on products, even if it's only temporary. 2) XML is highly general 3) XML doesn't suffer from the weird exceptions to general rules that something like YAML has But in the future, I'll likely lean more on JSON. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
