On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 1:41 PM, Chris Lindsay via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:
> If a block of static data is large enough to start to be ugly, a common > approach is to load the data from some other file, in a language which is > designed around structured data. Maybe it is common in industrial applications but not in smaller production, and according to my observation not common at all in all occasional scripts. >YAML comes to mind Actually plugging a data syntax in existing language is not a new idea. Though I don't know real success stories. > What use-case do you foresee for your proposed new format, that isn't > already (better) accomplished by using a separate structured > data/serialisation language? Well everything described in the doc is quite common. So simply put, for all data beyond trivial inline [1,2,3]. If your idea is to use external data for all scenarios - then there are many questions - which toolchains, file organisation, distribution etc. One common approach is an TSV/ CSV editor plus a quick dirty self-defined parser. One criteria for a syntax - how simple to edit it in normal text editor and how other existing data editors can do it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
