Efficient configuration storage

[Alexis Roda]

sebsauvage wrote:
 >
> ConfigParser could do the trick, but the biggest trouble is that it does
> not retain type (boolean, integer, string...).
> 
> Would I have to store everything as text and cast it everywhere
> it's used (and try/except each cast of course) ?
> 'Looks ugly and inefficient to me.

ConfigParser has methods get_bool, get_int (can't remember the exact 
name) ...

> Or have a configuration class which knows the type of each parameter
> and casts appropriately from the configuration file ?

Well, here the cast may fail, so you should catch exception/errors too.


HTH
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