Ben Finney wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> writes:
In message <7j8w5tylmw....@rapun.sel.cam.ac.uk>, Matthew Vernon wrote:
Is there a more idiomatic way of loading in a configuration file
that's python code ...
Is it really a good idea to have a configuration language that’s Turing-
complete?
I think not. Configuration files should be read as data; they should be
declarative only, not executable languages. That way, a different
program can read and parse them without having to be a parser for an
entire programming language.
For local non distributed applications, configuration files written in
python are just fine.
JM
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