On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 09:34:43AM -0700, Christopher Barker wrote:
> And on the Python side, there is no standard way to represent arbitrary
> text files as Python objects.
Um, sure there is: unstructured text, which is exactly what Python does.
And contrary to Steve Barnes' comments, Python d
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 5:45 AM Shahriar Heidrich <
smheidr...@weltenfunktion.de> wrote:
> On 8/28/20 6:56 AM, Steve Barnes wrote:
>
> This is just about the first part of your mail: There are external
> libraries for reading and writing various formats while preserving comments
> (and even more,
On 8/28/20 6:56 AM, Steve Barnes wrote:
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> It occurs to me that there are many situations where files are human
> authored and can include comments but by default when python
> reads/modifies/writes those files by default the comments are lost.
>
>
>
> Some examples include configfile, json and
