<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 7, 2011, at 1:08 AM, Tim Allen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Menlo; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">Well, the nice thing about ConfigParser is that it's in the stdlib, and<br>people already know how to create them, and rolling<br>yet-another-config-file-format seems crazy in this day and age.<br></span></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My point was really that people <i>think</i> they know how to create these, but actually they don't. Pop quiz, hot shot: what is the quoting rule to put a linebreak with preserved trailing whitespace into a value in a .ini file? Into a key?</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Menlo; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">If you need a non-Turing-complete config language and rule out .ini and<br>XML, I'm not sure what's left. JSON, perhaps.<br></span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Pickle, of course.</div><div><br></div></body></html>