[Python-Dev] New miniconf module (original) (raw)

Armin Rigo arigo at tunes.org
Thu Jul 27 12:33:31 CEST 2006

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 03:39:39AM -0400, Sylvain Fourmanoit wrote:

Having JSON there would indeed be nice: In fact, I recall being initially surprised it was not supported by the standard library.

But is there a need to choose? Why not have both? The miniconf approach has its advantages and differences:

I support this point of view: miniconf fills the hole that the stdlib leaves for a safe and cross-version dumper/loader for simple objects using the Python syntax. In the same spirit, maybe it could be slightly re-oriented towards a dumper/loader for more than config files; for example, it could provide a safe inverse of repr() for common built-in types. Such a functionality has been discussed here a few times if I remember correctly, but the code in miniconf is very close to providing it.

A bientot,

Armin

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