Draft PEP on RSON configuration file format

[Tim Chase]

<question type="rhetorical">
Does this mean we should stick with XML until the end of time?
</question>

One word: COBOL



-tkc

 

[Aahz]

ReST is another abomination that should never have gotten off the
ground. It is one of the reasons I react so negatively to your
config format proposal. It just sounds like more of the same.

Really? What should we use instead of reST?
--
Aahz ([email protected]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/

"Many customs in this life persist because they ease friction and promote
productivity as a result of universal agreement, and whether they are
precisely the optimal choices is much less important." --Henry Spencer

 

[Gregory Ewing]

I use footnotes all the time[1] in plain text documents and emails. I
don't think there's anything bizarre about it at all.

It's not the use of footnotes I'm talking about, it's
the cryptic character sequences used to mark them up
in ReST. Nobody would come up with them on their own
without having read the fine print of an ReST manual.

 

[Paul Rubin]

I believe ReST predates all of those mentioned.

Texinfo and POD are certainly older than ReST. I'm not sure about
MediaWiki markup, but it's gotten so much traction that Markdown
should probably be abandoned in its favor even if Markdown is older.

 

[Robert Kern]

Markdown, Textile, or possibly Creole; reST has so little use outside of
Python as to be nearly Python-specific.
It'd be nice not to have to learn yet another markup language without
good reason.

I believe ReST predates all of those mentioned.

--
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco

 

[Patrick Maupin]

I have not yet added indentation sensitivity to the parser (although
the tokenizer saves the indentation information for the parser), but
the initial prototype parses all of JSON plus a lot of syntax
enhancements (comments, hex/binary/octal numbers, relaxed quoting
requirements for strings, trailing comments allowed, triple-quoted
strings, etc.)

I have also started the rson-discuss group on google for further
discussions on the actual syntax and initial implementation, if anyone
is interested, and have posted a message there with a bit more
information about the prototype status.

The project page is at http://code.google.com/p/rson/

Best regards,
Pat

 

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

You're not supposed to edit those formats manually.

Strange. A previous client of mine was a totally non-IT-technical guy, yet I
was able to set him up with editing XML files (needed to drive some software
I wrote for him) just fine.

Of course he was using a purpose-built editor, namely KXMLEditor.