Seeing as we're suggesting alternatives, ConfigObj is great for hand readable/writable data persistence.
You can use validate and ConfigPersist for automatic type conversion. You can persist (basically) all the standard datatypes using this. The syntax is usually more 'familiar' than Yaml, but it's not as flexible. http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html All the best, Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
