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From: Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
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Subject: Most Pythonic way to store (small) configuration
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2015 12:11:28 +0200
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There are a lot of ways to store configuration information:
- conf file
- xml file
- database
- json file
- and possible a lot of other ways

I want to write a Python program to display cleaned log files. I do
not think I need a lot of configuration to be stored:
- some things relating to the GUI
- default behaviour
- default directory
- log files to display, including some info
  - At least until where it was displayed

Because of this I think a human readable file would be best.
Personally I do not find XML very readable. So a conf or json file
looks the most promising to me. And I would have a slight preference
for a json file.

Any comments, thoughts or tips?

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof