Most Pythonic way to store (small) configuration

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sun Aug 2 06:49:08 EDT 2015


On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Cecil Westerhof <Cecil at decebal.nl> wrote:
> Because of this I think a human readable file would be best.
> Personally I do not find XML very readable. So a conf or json file
> looks the most promising to me. And I would have a slight preference
> for a json file.
>
> Any comments, thoughts or tips?

I'd agree with your analysis. XML is not readable; the two best
options would be JSON, if you need the potential for deep structure,
or the simple config file ("INI file") if you don't.

ChrisA



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