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pickling or xml or other?

Bo bs1984 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 21 00:40:05 EDT 2006 
You could use a python file and use the builtin import facility to read
in configurations.

from http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html
   ... in Python, more often than not, code is easier to write
   than XML. And Python can process code much, much
   faster than your code can process XML. (Not only that,
   but you have to write the XML processing code, whereas
   Python itself is already written for you.)

placid wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an application were i want the user to "configure" some settings
> which are variables within different classes.
>
> My question is should i just pickle out these variables to a file in
> some particular order then read it back. Or use xml to save the config
> values ? Which one scales better if settings increase?
> 
> Other sugestions? 
> 
> -Cheers
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