Hi, On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 03:39:39AM -0400, Sylvain Fourmanoit wrote: > Having JSON there would indeed be nice: In fact, I recall being initially > surprised it was not supported by the standard library. > > But is there a need to choose? Why not have both? The miniconf approach > has its advantages and differences:
I support this point of view: miniconf fills the hole that the stdlib leaves for a safe and cross-version dumper/loader for simple objects using the Python syntax. In the same spirit, maybe it could be slightly re-oriented towards a dumper/loader for more than config files; for example, it could provide a safe inverse of repr() for common built-in types. Such a functionality has been discussed here a few times if I remember correctly, but the code in miniconf is very close to providing it. A bientot, Armin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
