DL Neil <pythonl...@danceswithmice.info> writes: > After striking this problem, I was encouraged to take a look at JSON, > and thence YAML. Once there, as they say, didn't look back! > - multi-dimensional possibilities, cf .ini > - similarity/correspondence with Python data structures > - convenient PSL > - easily adopted by (power-)users, cf Python code
Those are all true. Drawbacks for YAML as a configuration format: * Not implemented in Python standard library. * Not a single, unambiguous standard which all implementations support (this may be one reason for no Python standard library implementation). Despite those, yes I would very much prefer to use YAML as a configuration format. (ConfigParser INI format is acceptable. JSON is definitely not, because it has no simple way to put comments in the file.) -- \ “In the long run, the utility of all non-Free software | `\ approaches zero. All non-Free software is a dead end.” —Mark | _o__) Pilgrim, 2006 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
