[bop-devel] Python gateway module

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On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 12:47:33PM -0700, Ivan Kohler wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:22:42AM -0300, David Pratt wrote:
> > Hi Ivan. I am happy to hear from you after a few months :-)  I don't 
> > think these ideas are too pie in the sky at all but more of an 
> > evolution. I am involved in a couple of e-commerce projects on different 
> > python frameworks and I believe something like this is long overdue.
> > 
> > If you are game, I'd like to see if there are perhaps a couple of other 
> > folks on the python side I could stir up to get our heads together with 
> > you (and any other interested folks). It would be great see if we can 
> > formulate something meaningful. I think XML would be the way to go with 
> > this personally.
> 
> I don't have a huge amount of time to devote to such an effort, but I of 
> course would like to be involved.  Personally I would choose YAML over 
> XML as the magic fairy dust quotient seems to be way lower, human 
> readability seems to be way higher, and we can always easily transform 
> to XML programmatically.  But I don't really care all that much.
> 

YAML is really broken.  More specifically, validating YAML seems to be
impossible, and the libraries are all crap.  The XML libraries are crap too,
but at least you can validate the data (sorta).  I'll be discussing some of 
the vulnerability issues in my talk at YAPC::EU if anyone gives a damn.

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