On Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at 6:58:01 PM UTC+5:30, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2015-08-02 12:11, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> > There are a lot of ways to store configuration information:
> > - conf file
> > - xml file
> > - database
> > - json file
> > - and possible a lot of other ways
> >
> > I want to write a Python program to display cleaned log files. I do
> > not think I need a lot of configuration to be stored:
> > - some things relating to the GUI
> > - default behaviour
> > - default directory
> > - log files to display, including some info
> > - At least until where it was displayed
> >
> > Because of this I think a human readable file would be best.
>
> Yet another mostly-built-in option is to just have a simple file of
> key/value pairs, optionally with comments. This can be read with
> something like
>
> config = {}
> with open('config.ini') as f:
> for row in f:
> row = row.strip()
> if not row or row.startswith(('#', ';')):
> continue
> k, _, v = row.partition('=')
> config[k.strip().upper()] = v.lstrip()
>
> which is pretty straight-forward and easy format to edit.
>
> -tkc
JSON handles basic types like this:
>>> from json import loads
>>> loads("""{"anInt":1, "aString":"2"}""")
{'aString': '2', 'anInt': 1}
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