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Alternative Configuration Parser Recommendation

I have written a new configuration parser that contains all of the features of this parsing system, has additional features and has a different interface. The new parser contains an interface that is modelled after the optparse module in the standard Python distribution and is designed to (optionally) cooperate with the optparse command line option parser.

Support for Python based configuration files remains the same, even the syntax remains the same (except for the KEYS_FIRST_CONFIG construct has been dropped). In addition, a INI style syntax has been added that may be more convenient to use plus supports round trip read/write operations.... read more

Posted by Dan Gass 2005-05-01