[Python-Dev] YAML (was Re: Extension to ConfigParser)

Tue Jan 31 20:57:18 CET 2006

Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> But like it or not, configuration files are often used to store data
>> about what a program does - not just the UI options. Storing this in a
>> human readable and editable format is of great advantage.
>>>> Yes, a lot of the entries will never be modified by a user - but many
>> will need to be edited and read by a developer. In a production
>> environment importing from python modules is not likely to be safe.
>> Ah. This definitely isn't what ConfigParser was meant to do. I'd think
> for this you should use some kind of XML pickle though. That's
> horrible if end users must edit it, but great for saving
> near-arbitrary persistent data in a readable and occasionally editable
> (for the developer) form.

While we're at it, is the Python library going to incorporate some YAML
parser in the future? YAML seems like a perfectly matching data format
for Python.
Georg