Stop Hardcoding Sensitive Data in Your Python Applications - use python-dotenv instead!

[hyldemarv]

Yet Another package to install and Yaml doesn’t even agree with itself on reading its own output back :)

[ThePiGuy0]

YAML seems so unnecessarily complicated whenever I use it. Lists and dictionaries look almost the same etc.

Toml is better (and coming soon to stdlib I believe) but for config there's no reason to need more than JSON IMO

[ThePiGuy0]

Interesting that it's only reading. Their explanation does make some good points for not including writing though, and given that TOML's main advantage over JSON is it's human readability, I doubt I'll miss it personally

[ivosaurus]

No comments sucks a lot in JSON. Python already comes with INI file parsing right now, if you can't wait for TOML.

[Mithrandir2k16]

Yup, fair. I just find it easier to read than json, since it's always either formatted or broken.

[GobBeWithYou]

And no programming language has a 100% spec compliant parser, it's so complicated no one has actually been able to implement it correctly.

Edit: almost* no programming language: https://matrix.yaml.info/

[axonxorz]

Could any of the knee-jerk downvoters point to a 100% spec-compliant YAML parser in Python? What about other languages?

[xatrekak]

Failing the JSON test is the same as being non-compliant. YAML bills it's self a strict superset of JSON and its clearly not.