[Twisted-Python] Twisted Plugins - Implementation Discussion

[Tim Allen]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 03:24:57PM +0900, David wrote:
> On 04/07/2011 02:08 PM, Tim Allen wrote:
> > If you need a non-Turing-complete config language and rule out .ini and
> > XML, I'm not sure what's left. JSON, perhaps.
> 
> Having had experience with JSON for configuration: it is a terrible 
> format for configuration, if only because it does not support comments.
> 
> The syntax is also a bit too strict: enough to be annoying in something 
> you want to edit all the time and easily in my experience.

Well, that's pretty depressing. The only other candidate I can even
think of is YAML, and that's not in the standard library (as far as
I know).

Who'd have guessed it'd be so complicated to associate keys with values?