On May 6, 2016 10:14 PM, "Donald Stufft" <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > While I personally prefer YAML to any of the options on a purely syntax based > level, when you weigh in all the other considerations for this I think that it > makes sense to go with TOML for it.
I feel the same way. I use YAML fairly extensively with Salt, and while most of the basic cases are usually fine, any time I try to do something advanced, I find that it takes a few tries to get right. Also note with YAML that whichever library we picked would *also* become a pip upstream, FWIW. > The only other option I think that could work is what Chris (I think?) > suggested and just use a Python literal evaluated using ``ast.literal_eval()`` > this is safe to do but it would make it harder for other languages to parse our > files. It's similar to the approach taken by Lua Rocks for how their packaging > system works (although their uses variables instead of one big dictionary which > I think looks nicer) but Lua is much better suited for trying to execute safely > outside of ``ast.literal_eval()`` too. I'd be interested to see what that option looked like, though I *suspect* that the vagaries in unicode/non-unicode between 2.x and 3.x may produce the same weakness that we saw in the ConfigParser option. -W
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