On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Vinay Sajip <[email protected]>wrote:
> anatoly techtonik <techtonik <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Why reinvent own format when there is already YAML with indented > sections? > > Yes, I have to see examples to write in this format, but it is readable > and > > familiar across a broad range of products. It is better than JSON at > least, > > because it doesn't require to wrap anything in quotes. > > I too originally thought YAML might be better, but unfortunately the most > mature implementation there is (PyYAML) is still not quite ready, as there > are many open issues around dump() and load(). See for example > > http://pyyaml.org/ticket/264 > > "yaml.load() fails to load a dict just saved by yaml.dump()" > This one is huge and requires example to be run to see the actual error. Is that a minimal example? I don't even have an idea fails there. > Together with the security issues around YAML (which bit the Rails > community > not that long ago) means that JSON is probably a better bet for the moment. > Google AppEngine uses it. Ansible uses it. I'd like to know more about that.
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