"Brendan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > seems risky. Also my config files have (a tiny bit of) nested > structure, such as: > > Model1( > numBumps = 1 > sizeOfBumps = 2 > transversePlanes = [ > Plane(type=3, z=4), > Plane(type=5, z=6), > Plane(type=3, z=8) > ] > ) > > which I'm not sure the .ini format can easily support. I could use > (key buzzword voice) XML, but I fear that might send me down the > 'overcomplicating things' path. Your suggestion has given me some new > places to search Google (configparser, python config files), so I'll > look around for better ideas.
Take a look at pickle (specially cPickle) module for pickling and unpickling data directly from / to Python types. What you want can be mapped to dictionaries of lists of dictionaries. :-) -- Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list