placid wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an application were i want the user to "configure" some settings > which are variables within different classes. > > My question is should i just pickle out these variables to a file in > some particular order then read it back. Or use xml to save the config > values ? Which one scales better if settings increase? > > Other sugestions?
ConfigParser. And "scaling" of something that by definition is supposed to be written by humans isn't a matter here. What matters is that a config-file can be edited on the commandline using vi (or the editor of your choice) - a pickle can't. So I'd certainly advise against the pickling. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
