On Sunday 2 Aug 2015 13:54 CEST, Ben Finney wrote: > Cecil Westerhof <ce...@decebal.nl> writes: > >> Because of this I think a human readable file would be best. > > I agree with that criterion; in the absence of compelling reasons > otherwise, human-readable and -editable text is a good default. > >> Personally I do not find XML very readable. So a conf or json file >> looks the most promising to me. And I would have a slight >> preference for a json file. > > XML and JSON should both be considered data serialisation formats > only. > > JSON is human-readable to an extent, but it is quite brittle, and > there are no comments permitted in the syntax. > > So, both XML and JSON should be considered write-only, and produced > only for consumption by a computer; they are a poor choice for > presenting to a human. > > The “INI” format as handled by the Python ‘configparser’ module is > what I would recommend for a simple flat configuration file. It is > more intuitive to edit, and has a conventional commenting format.
Well, I would use nested data. (A file will have extra fields besides the name.) That is why I was thinking about json. But I will look into it. -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
