I have a use case where I’d like to store a handful of strings with static values, alongside my code that references them. The general reason for not hard coding them where they’re called, is that I’d like to make it easy for the end user to customize and modify them.
Are there any suggestions or comments about the best ways to do this? Storing them in a python file as vars seems reasonable. I’ve also considered saving them as JSON, though I don’t know if there’s any benefit to that in this case.
Thoughts are appreciated.
I always use a yaml file for user config but json is fine, too
Yaml is pure evil with utterly useless syntax checking.
Ever tried maintaining a Swagger file using yaml?
I’m never touching that shit again.
YAML is far from perfect but this seems like a hot take. I work with OpenAPI definitions a lot so I’m just curious what you found difficult about maintaining a definition in YAML?
json schema + json allows you to extend beyond key/value pairs & the input validation is “free”.
How many? I probably wouldn’t even bother with JSON, just one string per line in a text file.
Sorry, I should have given more detail about the nature of the strings.
Right now it’s about ~15, however that could grow to maybe a maximum of 30. Some are short sentences, but others might be a couple sentences long.
I’d absolutely use a text file, one entry per line. Once you need to start associating other information with those strings, it becomes time for JSON or similar.
