Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

JSON files

JSON data structures are also a viable candidate for storing configuration file data. JSON supports data of different types, and complex data structures. Both are advantages, however trivial they might be, over the basic INI-file structure. There is no predefined organizational structure, though, so figuring out how configuration values should be grouped or organized is something that developers will have to give some thought to. There is also no inheritance of configuration data across sections, because there are no sections to inherit from. Still, it's a simple, robust, and reasonably easy-to-understand option. An approximate JSON equivalent of the preceding INI-flavored configuration file might look something such as the following: ...