Lance,
> I am still undecided if the ability for the user to edit the file
> independently of the program is a good or bad thing.
I prefer user viewable plain (non-XML) text files because:
- easy to make a change in case of emergency
- easy to visually review and search
- easy to version contro
Lance,
> I am still undecided if the ability for the user to edit the file
> independently of the program is a good or bad thing.
I prefer user viewable plain (non-XML) text files because:
- easy to make a change in case of emergency
- easy to visually review and search
- easy to version contro
On May 2, 12:30 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> En Thu, 01 May 2008 10:30:03 -0300, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> escribió:
>
> > As for where to store it, I use os.path.expanduser("~") to find the
> > base directory and a bit of platform specific code.
>
> > Something
En Thu, 01 May 2008 10:30:03 -0300, Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
escribió:
As for where to store it, I use os.path.expanduser("~") to find the
base directory and a bit of platform specific code.
Something like this snippet
self.is_windows = sys.platform == 'win32'
self.home =
Hallöchen!
Ivan Illarionov writes:
> On Fri, 02 May 2008 01:21:38 +0200, Torsten Bronger wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> In contrast to many other areas of software, configuration files
>> needn't be compatible with anything except the user's brain. So
>> even if the rest of the world uses config forma
On May 1, 7:54 pm, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No, all I want is to give the OP a useful alternative
Fair enough, I can't argue with that.
Carl Banks
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On Fri, 02 May 2008 01:21:38 +0200, Torsten Bronger wrote:
> Hallöchen!
>
> Ivan Illarionov writes:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> For me it looks more like an old-school/new-school thing than use-case
>> thing. I may be wrong, but I see more and more new projects use things
>> like reST and YAML/JSON and it
On Thu, 01 May 2008 16:32:00 -0700, Carl Banks wrote:
> On May 1, 4:50 pm, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Thu, 01 May 2008 11:56:20 -0700, Carl Banks wrote:
>> > On May 1, 1:30 pm, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> On Thu, 01 May 2008 09:45:28 -0700, Carl Banks wro
On May 1, 4:50 pm, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 01 May 2008 11:56:20 -0700, Carl Banks wrote:
> > On May 1, 1:30 pm, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 01 May 2008 09:45:28 -0700, Carl Banks wrote:
> >> > On May 1, 12:11 pm, Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED
Hallöchen!
Ivan Illarionov writes:
> [...]
>
> For me it looks more like an old-school/new-school thing than
> use-case thing. I may be wrong, but I see more and more new
> projects use things like reST and YAML/JSON and it feels like they
> are gradually replacing traditional old-school solution
On Thu, 01 May 2008 23:03:38 +0200, Torsten Bronger wrote:
> Hallöchen!
>
> Ivan Illarionov writes:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> I took the example from
>> http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/10/29/14225/062 I haven't use my own
>> example only because I don't have one at hand right now. YAML, in its
>> simp
Hallöchen!
Ivan Illarionov writes:
> [...]
>
> I took the example from
> http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/10/29/14225/062 I haven't use
> my own example only because I don't have one at hand right
> now. YAML, in its simple form, definetely makes me more
> productive. I wasted too much time wit
On Thu, 01 May 2008 11:56:20 -0700, Carl Banks wrote:
> On May 1, 1:30 pm, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Thu, 01 May 2008 09:45:28 -0700, Carl Banks wrote:
>> > On May 1, 12:11 pm, Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr
On Thu, 01 May 2008 14:13:08 -0500, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I used XML files before for this purpose and found YAML much easier and
>> better suitable for the task.
>>
>> Please explain why don't like YANL so much?
>
> Because even the exa
Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On May 1, 12:11 pm, Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > IMO .ini-like config files are from the stone age. The modern approach is
> > > to use YAML (http://www.yaml.org).
> >
> > You m
On 2008-05-01 Carl Banks wrote:
> If you don't intend to write a GUI to do that, write a simple
> text file parser (if the options are simple), use ConfigParser,
> or use a Python file that you exec.
INI is great for so many things. It is also extremely
commonplace, regardless of platform. The
On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I used XML files before for this purpose and found YAML much easier and
> better suitable for the task.
>
> Please explain why don't like YANL so much?
Because even the examples in the spec itself are unreadable gibberish.
The PyYAML lib
On May 1, 1:30 pm, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 01 May 2008 09:45:28 -0700, Carl Banks wrote:
> > On May 1, 12:11 pm, Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> > IMO .ini-like config files are from the stone
On May 1, 4:37 am, Lance Gamet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, python beginner starting a new project here.
>
> This project will store most of its actual data in a shared-database, but
> I have a small amount of user specific data that I need to be stored like
> configuration or preferences for e
YAML is a joke if you expect a windows user to be able to hand edit the
data. Windows users typically expect a .ini file in the application's
directory. (Usually not the users home directory, even if that may be a
better location). XML is ok, but .ini is much preferred.
If you have a configurat
On Thu, 01 May 2008 09:45:28 -0700, Carl Banks wrote:
> On May 1, 12:11 pm, Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > IMO .ini-like config files are from the stone age. The modern
>> > approach is to use YAML (http://www.yaml.org).
On Thu, 01 May 2008 11:11:29 -0500, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> IMO .ini-like config files are from the stone age. The modern approach
>> is to use YAML (http://www.yaml.org).
>
> You mean YAML isn't a joke!? It's so ludicrously overcomplicate
On May 1, 12:11 pm, Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > IMO .ini-like config files are from the stone age. The modern approach is
> > to use YAML (http://www.yaml.org).
>
> You mean YAML isn't a joke!? It's so ludicrously overcomp
On 2008-05-01, Ivan Illarionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IMO .ini-like config files are from the stone age. The modern approach is
> to use YAML (http://www.yaml.org).
You mean YAML isn't a joke!? It's so ludicrously overcomplicated,
and so comprehensively and completely fails to achieve its
On Thu, 01 May 2008 08:30:03 -0500, Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> Lance Gamet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> This project will store most of its actual data in a shared-database,
>> but I have a small amount of user specific data that I need to be
>> stored like configuration or preferences for examp
Lance Gamet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This project will store most of its actual data in a shared-database, but
> I have a small amount of user specific data that I need to be stored like
> configuration or preferences for example, the list of databases that the
> program should connect t
Lance Gamet schrieb:
Hi, python beginner starting a new project here.
This project will store most of its actual data in a shared-database, but
I have a small amount of user specific data that I need to be stored like
configuration or preferences for example, the list of databases that the
pr
Lance Gamet wrote:
Hi, python beginner starting a new project here.
This project will store most of its actual data in a shared-database, but
I have a small amount of user specific data that I need to be stored like
configuration or preferences for example, the list of databases that the
prog
On 2008-05-01 13:37, Lance Gamet wrote:
Hi, python beginner starting a new project here.
This project will store most of its actual data in a shared-database, but
I have a small amount of user specific data that I need to be stored like
configuration or preferences for example, the list of dat
Look at the pickle and marshal modules.
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