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Subject: Re: Most Pythonic way to store (small) configuration
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 16:12:13 +0100
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On 02/08/2015 12:54, Ben Finney wrote:
> Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> writes:
>
>> Because of this I think a human readable file would be best.
>
> The “INI” format as handled by the Python ‘configparser’ module is what
> I would recommend for a simple flat configuration file. It is more
> intuitive to edit, and has a conventional commenting format.

+1

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