How to store properties

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 7:43 PM, dieter <dieter at handshake.de> wrote:
> "pickle", too, has a potential security risk -- if you allow
> unpickling from untrusted source. Usually, however, configuration
> comes from trusted sources.

Pickle's other downside is that it's an opaque binary file, unlike
ConfigParser, JSON, and Python code, which are human-readable text.
Letting the end user edit your configs is often a feature, not a bug.

ChrisA