editing conf file

[rusi]

On Nov 16, 7:08 pm, Roy Smith <r... at panix.com> wrote:
> These days, if I was writing something that needed a config file and I
> didn't want to do "import settings" for whatever reason, I would go with
> YAML.  It seems to give an attractive mix of:
>
> * supporting complex data structures
> * easy to for humans to hand-edit
> * easy for humans to read
> * safe from code injection attacks

+1 except for a caveat on the last:
Use safe_load and safe_dump.
dump and load are vulnerable to code injection attacks