why use special config formats?

[gangesmaster]

>> Why is the first uglier than the second?
YES THATS THE POINT. PYTHON CAN BE USED JUST LIKE A CONFIG FILE.

and if your users did
timeout = "300"
instead of
timeout = 300

then either your config parser must be uber-smart and all-knowing, and
check the types of key-value pairs, or your server would crash. either
way is bad, and i prefer crash-on-use then
know-everything-and-check-at-the-parser-level.



good night,
-tomer