if you are really so scared of letting others exploit your config scripts, then use the second, pickled fashion. that way you can store the file at $HOME/blah-config.pkl, and everybody's happy.
still, my point is we dont need special config mechanisms, since the builtin ones, like object persistency (sp) or python scripts are good enough, less buggy, and dont require you to learn thousands of config formats. and you can even edit pickled files by hand (protocol 0 i believe). it's not that complicated. -tomer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
