Writers [Was: Re: Standarize TOML?]

[Michael F. Stemper]

On 18/05/2021 08.23, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> On 2021-05-18, Michael F. Stemper <mstemper at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 17/05/2021 18.48, Terry Reedy wrote:

>>> There are multiple packages.  There is no consensus on which to pick,
>>> *if any*. Existing modules apparently include writers, which are
>>> necessarily opinionated (as is formatting of C, Python, html, ...).  As
>>> I just noted in the discussion, the stdlib does not have an html writer.
>>
>> If I'm parsing this correctly, python supports something called a
>> "writer", which does not mean "somebody who writes python".
> 
> You are not parsing it correctly. Terry means that at least some
> existing TOML modules for Python include facilities for outputting
> ("writing") TOML as well as reading it, and this makes choosing
> between those modules more controversial as there are more subjective
> opinions involved in the implementation of writing TOML as opposed to
> only reading it.

Okay, thanks.

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Michael F. Stemper
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