Suggestion: store settings in an external config file. about logbot HOT 6 OPEN

Since I moved to Rails, I've really preferred using YAML. Python doesn't have a builtin Yaml parser, but it does have an INI parser. Check out this: http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html

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Yeah, YAML is a lovely format that's also one of my favourite formats. JSON would come close though.
ConfigParser looks nice, but it only supports strings and ints by the looks of it. Then again, using spaces as separators would work well enough for keeping the list of channels.

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I found this for reading/writing arrays in INIs http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4097139/reading-array-from-config-file-in-python

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Still not as clean as how they would be shown in YAML ;-)
I'll do some prototyping on a separate branch.

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Looks like the project used to have config file support at some point? aaa7200

Any specific reason you didn't include that in your (second?) rewrite?

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Just convenience actually. Was trying to focus on the bot itself rather than this. It felt unnecessary at the time so I didn't readd it.

Glad you found that. I was looking for it earlier but couldn't remember which project that was in. :)

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