TOML in Python
TOML in Python
I finally got around to fully learning TOML . Some notes, including how to read and write it from Python.
I love toml. It's so natural. I use it all the time (for smaller configs)
I think yaml was a perfectly fine way to express a hash/dict like config. I am surprised that toml was so widely adopted by the community.
YAML is extremely complex for a configuration format and it has many really weird edge cases:
The problem is IMHO made worse because it looks so friendly at first glance.
Yaml is fine until you want to abbreviate Norway and get false... toml doesn't handle everything well but at least it doesn't have insane problems like that.
While that shouldn't happen with a current-spec YAML parser, I agree even the current spec does way too much with types.
I've come to love NestedText's approach of leaving all type handling to the ingesting code.
As someone who had tried to wrap their mind around YAML spec...
Fuck yaml. It is ridiculous how much junk there is in that spec.