[Python-Dev] New miniconf module

[Michael Foord]

Sylvain Fourmanoit wrote:
> Armin Rigo wrote:
>   
>> In the same spirit, maybe it could be slightly re-oriented towards a 
>> dumper/loader for more than config files; for example, it could provide 
>> a safe inverse of repr() for common built-in types
>>     
>
> New version of miniconf (version 1.2.0) is out [1][2], including a 
> unrepr() function; that's the only change this time.
>
> Michael Foord wrote:
>   
>> ConfigObj [3] gained an 'unrepr' mode a while back. The code is simple, 
>> and originally came from CherryPy.
>>     
>
> Thanks for the link! I completely missed ConfigObj. It indeed shares a 
> lot with my code. At the core, it use many of the same ideas and 
> implementation techniques... In many ways, it is also a lot more 
> advanced, specialized than miniconf: for instance, it introduce a new, 
> specialized Config File format, while my effort aimed at keeping things 
> minimal.
>
>   
Cool - I made the post so you could reuse the unrepr code, but I'm glad 
you like ConfigObj. :-)

If miniconf can store and restore instances of classes (which I guess it 
does if you see it as an improvement of pickle ?) then it does more than 
ConfigObj unrepr mode - which simply allows you to store basic 
data-types in config files (amongst all the other things it does...).

Michael
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