On Apr 7, 2011, at 1:08 AM, Tim Allen wrote: > Well, the nice thing about ConfigParser is that it's in the stdlib, and > people already know how to create them, and rolling > yet-another-config-file-format seems crazy in this day and age.
My point was really that people think they know how to create these, but actually they don't. Pop quiz, hot shot: what is the quoting rule to put a linebreak with preserved trailing whitespace into a value in a .ini file? Into a key? > If you need a non-Turing-complete config language and rule out .ini and > XML, I'm not sure what's left. JSON, perhaps. Pickle, of course.
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