Cecil Westerhof <ce...@decebal.nl> writes: > On Sunday 2 Aug 2015 13:54 CEST, Ben Finney wrote: > > > 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. > > Well, I would use nested data. (A file will have extra fields besides > the name.)
In that case, your needs are more complex than “store some simple configuration”. You need a human-editable format (so, not JSON and not XML) which handles structured data well, and is widely implemented. For nested configuration data, you would be better served by YAML <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML>, and the PyYAML library <URL:https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyYAML/> is the one to use. -- \ 學而不思則罔，思而不學則殆。 | `\ (To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study | _o__) is dangerous.) —孔夫子 Confucius (551 BCE – 479 BCE) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
