On 12/6/2023 1:12 PM, MRAB via Python-list wrote:
On 2023-12-06 12:23, Thomas Passin via Python-list wrote:
On 12/6/2023 6:35 AM, Barry Scott via Python-list wrote:
On 6 Dec 2023, at 09:32, Chris Green via Python-list
<python-list@python.org> wrote:
My requirement is *slightly* more complex than just key value pairs,
it has one level of hierarchy, e.g.:-
KEY1:
a: v1
c: v3
d: v4
KEY2:
a: v7
b: v5
d: v6
Different numbers of value pairs under each KEY.
JSON will allow you to nest dictionaries.
{
'KEY1': {
'a': v1
'c': v3
'd': v4
}
'KEY2': {
'a': v7
'b': v5
'd': v6
}
}
Personally I would not use .ini style these days as the format does
not include type of the data.
Neither does JSON. Besides, JSON is more complicated than necessary
here - in fact, your example isn't even legal JSON since lines are
missing commas.
Fun fact - for at least some, maybe most, JSON files, using eval() on
them is hugely faster than using Python's standard JSON library. I
learned this when I wanted to ingest a large browser bookmarks JSON
file. It wouldn't matter for a much smaller file, of course.
It would be safer if you used literal_eval.
He's going to be writing his own calibration data files, though, so it
should be safe for his purposes.
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