Prologue:
* I am hacking together an application. I need to store a list of some
files in one program.
* Another program must read this list and perform some actions.
* The files can be of three different categories. I use separate lists
while computing these.
I need to recover them as separate lists too.
* I am using Python at the moment for this.
Question:
Which format do I use?
I am kinda undecided because of the tradeoffs between xml, yaml and
pickling
If I choose yaml which has been my personal favorite because I have used
it more often in
the past with Ruby. But python yaml libs do not come with python. I would be
adding an extra
dependency.
If I use pickling, I would actually be restricting it to python. So a
future C app may not be
able to use the older files
If I use XML. Err. I do not know to use XML from inside languages. But
is it worth the time
spent in learning to use the XML libraries?
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Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham
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