On Friday, March 28, 2014 8:43:21 AM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: > > Your syntax there looks reasonable already. I'd recommend you make it > > a flat data file, though, don't try to make it a programming language > > - unless you actively need it to be one. Here are a couple of ways you > > could format this. Any would be fairly easy to code a parser for.
> My first impression here is that YAML might work here. Was going to say yaml would be my first choice. The only question here is whether to use the full-featured load or safe_load which only allows builtin types. In general load allowing calling of arbitrary code is a gaping security hole. Here it may be the best choice... dunno Personally I dont like mixing code and data. Yeah lisp is fun and all that but when it starts getting at all serious its a bloody mess. [BTW I consider the windows registry cleaner than the linux /etc for the same reason] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
