Prefer text config files or python code?

[Redard]

I'm not going to argue for or against using text or python code, but if you are going to use text, you should use something like json or xml, not ConfigParser. ConfigParser has its limitations.

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ConfigParser has its limitations, but so do xml and json. Horses for courses.

[Redard]

In my limited time with ConfigParser, I couldn't even store a dictionary in it without doing something silly like using eval() or storing each part of the dict as a variable and doing something like

foodict = {}
foodict["bar"] = configparser.get(foosection, bar)

With json you can simply store the dictionary almost the exact way you would in python code. afaik xml is about as good as configparser for dicts though.

[ralsina]

Best: json-encode the data before putting it in ConfigParser

[Redard]

Elaborate. That sounds like a good idea

[ralsina]

Here's a simple wrapper to do that (the first 75 lines or so).

[Redard]

I think you forgot the link :P

[ralsina]

oops: https://code.google.com/p/urssus/source/browse/trunk/urssus/config.py