On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 16:10 -0800, les wrote:
> > If in fact you "write converters between systems" then you should *LOVE*
> > g-conf; it's XML! Meaning you can reliably, easily, and quickly process
> > the contents. Verses the crap-hole that is a "text file".
> A text file can indeed be a crap-hole, especially if one chooses not to
> form thoughts as paragraphs, situations as chapters, or sequences into
> phrases and sentences that others can understand. So can any form of
> programming language. And that includes eXtended Meta Language.
It's "eXtensible Markup Language"
> And the syntax of XML does not mean you
Yes, it does.
python
import from lxml import etree
f = open('filename.xml', 'rb')
d = etree.parse(f)
> can reliably easily and quickly
> process the contents as seen here by the comments that don't recognize
> where this comes from, what it represents or even how to edit it without
> taking it out of context into a texteditor and editing it by hand
> because the tools are currently broken that somehow created the mess
> that exists on my system right now.
No mess - it's beautiful.
> As you gain experience, you too, will come to agree with these comments.
Nope. I've been a profession UNIX System & Network Administrator for
twenty years. *Experience* has taught me that text files are evil;
they have a strong initial appeal with their false simplicity, but
ultimately what matters is that data consistency can be enforced and
that the data is [reliably] machine-readable. Go XML!
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