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Re: Basic JSON question: Do I really need the quotes

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Date Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:14:35 +0200
Subject Re: Basic JSON question: Do I really need the quotes
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On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:09 PM,  <moogyd@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to define some configuration in a file that will be manually created.
> Internally, the data will be stored as a dict, which contains various properties related to a design
> e.g. Design Name, dependencies, lists of files (and associated libraries).
> json seemed a quick an easy way of achieving this
> Anyway, in simple terms my question - if I know everything is a string, how can I omit the quotation marks?

Nope.  JSON has those rules for a reason.  You need to be specific.  A
more “human-friendly” format is the one used by ConfigParser (close to
INI, but not quite).

Also, JSON is supposed to be generated by computers, not humans.
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Basic JSON question: Do I really need the quotes moogyd@yahoo.co.uk - 2012-10-12 07:09 -0700
  Re: Basic JSON question: Do I really need the quotes Kwpolska <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2012-10-12 16:14 +0200
  Re: Basic JSON question: Do I really need the quotes Roel Schroeven <roel@roelschroeven.net> - 2012-10-12 19:27 +0200
  Re: Basic JSON question: Do I really need the quotes Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org> - 2012-10-12 13:52 -0400
  Re: Basic JSON question: Do I really need the quotes Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-10-12 20:03 -0400
    Re: Basic JSON question: Do I really need the quotes rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2012-10-12 20:30 -0700
  Re: Basic JSON question: Do I really need the quotes moogyd@yahoo.co.uk - 2012-10-14 22:48 -0700

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