XML is kiinda nice for language-independent and editor-independent file formats, just because so many languages are so unfriendly at parsing text and happen to have a good XML library.
But, yeah, don't see much reason for XML here either. -Thiago On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Luke Paireepinart <rabidpoob...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree. Never understood why people love xml so much. I've always had > my cfg files be python files that I import. Works awesomely. > and if you ever want to programmatically generate your data you can > always include that code in the cfg file. Super easy and flexible. > Only downside that i can see is non-python interaction. But you can > always write code to dump to/from xml if you really need that. > > On 5/16/10, David Taylor <taylor...@comcast.net> wrote: >> >> I like that idea a whole lot more than XML. >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: owner-pygame-us...@seul.org [mailto:owner-pygame-us...@seul.org] On >> Behalf Of >>> Mark Reed >>> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 12:07 PM >>> To: pygame-users@seul.org >>> Subject: Re: [pygame] Layout module for Pygame surfaces >>> >>> Why does it need to be XML? Write it out as python dict's and eval the >>> file. 2 lines of code. >>> >>> And use an existing library and write an editor for it. Thats really >>> the thrust of what you are trying to do. Support the code that is out >>> there instead of rewriting it. >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Pablo Recio Quijano >>> <rikuthero...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > There's no GUI behind the the XML right now. I wrote the XML by hand. >>> > >>> > The idea is to do the library and write an application like Glade, but >> for >>> > Pygame. >>> > >>> > 2010/5/15 jake b <ninmonk...@gmail.com> >>> >> >>> >> What GUI are you using behind the xml? >>> >> I'd be interested in seeing the code. >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Pablo Recio Quijano >>> > >>> > Estudiante de Ingeniería Informática (UCA) >>> > Alumno colaborador del Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos >>> > >> >> >> > > -- > Sent from my mobile device >
