lightweight human-readable config?

anton muhin antonmuhin.REMOVE.ME.FOR.REAL.MAIL at rambler.ru
Thu Oct 30 10:19:14 EST 2003


Maxim Khesin wrote:
> I want to have a config file with my python proggie, satisfying the 
> following requirements:
> 1) support key->(value, default)
> 2) simple and intuitive to read and edit
> 3) easyly readable into a python datastructure (a dictionary?)
> 4) not requiring any heavy libraries needed (I am distributing my 
> proggie as a py2exe executable and do not want to bloat the size)
> 
> can you guys suggest some format for this? thanks,
> max
> 
I like YAML (www.yaml.org), although the only Python implementation I'm 
aware of is a bit buggy.

hth,
anton.





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