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strictyaml
- StrictYAML
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XML is better than YAML
NestedText already is the way I use YAML; everything is intepreted as a string. I have some trust in my YAML parser to not mangle most strings. I could use NestedText, but users would be unfamiliar with it, and IIRC the only parsers are in Python. But then I could use StrictYaml too https://github.com/crdoconnor/strictyaml
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The new type of SQL injection
you can stick to a subset of YAML syntax (e.g. strictYAML)
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DO YOU YAML?
YAML stands for "YAML Ain’t Markup Language" - this is known as a recursive acronym. YAML is often used for writing configuration files. It’s human readable, easy to understand and can be used with other programming languages. Although YAML is commonly used in many disciplines, it has received criticism on the amoutn of whitespace .yml files have, difficulty in editing, and complexity of the standard. Despite the criticism, properly using YAML ensures that you can reproduce the results of a project and makes sure that the virtual environment packages play nicely with system packages. (If you're looking for another way to share environments there are other alternatives to YAML which include StrictYAML (a type-safe YAML parser) and NestedText)
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The yaml document from hell
The example you linked provides this as an example of a YAML document that he wants his format to support.
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The YAML Document from Hell
That safe subset exists and is implemented in a number of languages. It is called strict-yaml: https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/
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Hacker News top posts: Jul 3, 2022
StrictYAML\ (33 comments)
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Why JSON Isn’t a Good Configuration Language (2018)
To me those are in the category of "nice to have", and the problem is that every developer has different preferences for these [1] [2]. But the main features of StrictYaml, like supporting comments and less syntactic noise, I think are pretty uncontroversial, and perhaps it's worth it to get people to switch over for those alone. It doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be a significant enough improvement over JSON, and I'd say those two features are more than enough
confuse
- Yaml config parser package is named "confuse"
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Stop hardcoding and start using config files instead, it takes very little effort with configparser
I have been using confuse here and there for simple projects. It was a configuration tool that spun off from a small team making a Python music library manager. Both confuse and dynaconf allow default key configuration, layers of configs that can override others, etc. But with confuse I eventually found my use-case to diverge from the one that the music-manager-app devs had in mind.
What are some alternatives?
pyyaml - Canonical source repository for PyYAML
nestedtext - Human readable and writable data interchange format
dynaconf - Configuration Management for Python ⚙
ytt - YAML templating tool that works on YAML structure instead of text
tmuxp - 🖥️ Session manager for tmux, build on libtmux.
crudini - A utility for manipulating ini files
parse_it - A python library for parsing multiple types of config files, envvars & command line arguments that takes the headache out of setting app configurations.
yaml-rust - A pure rust YAML implementation.
xdgconfig - Easy access to ~/.config from python
starlark-go - Starlark in Go: the Starlark configuration language, implemented in Go
cmdkit - A library for developing command-line applications in Python.