On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Vincent Davis <vincent at vincentdavis.net> wrote: > I am working on a program to monitor directory file changes and am would > like a configuration file. This file would specify email addresses, file and > directory locations...... Is there a preferred format to use with python? ConfigParser supports an INI-like format: http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html JSON is also a popular option: http://docs.python.org/library/json.html Cheers, Chris