rm wrote:
Doug Holton wrote:
rm wrote:
this implementation of their idea. But I'd love to see a generic, pythonic data format.
That's a good idea. But really Python is already close to that. A lot of times it is easier to just write out a python dictionary than using a DB or XML or whatever. Python is already close to YAML in some ways.
true, it's easy enough to separate the data from the functionality in python by putting the data in a dictionary/list/tuple, but it stays source code.
Check out JSON, an alternative to XML for data interchange. It is basically just python dictionaries and lists:
http://www.crockford.com/JSON/example.html
I think I would like this better than YAML or XML, and it looks like it already parses as valid Python code, except for the /* */ multiline comments (which boo supports).
It was mentioned in a story about JSON-RPC-Java: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/24/125236 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
