[Python-Dev] ConfigParser patches (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Sat Oct 2 19:03:14 CEST 2004 

Guido> This reveals IMO a big mistake in thinking about configuration
Guido> files.  The most important user of a config file is not the
Guido> programmer who has to get data out of it; the most important user
Guido> is the user who has to edit the config file. The outrageous
Guido> verbosity of XML makes the above example a complete usability
Guido> liability.

Agreed.

What about YaML? It's human readable/editable and uses indentation to denote structure instead of . I'd Google for a reference but I'm off-net at the moment.

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