Pros and cons for different configuration formats?

Question

I\'ve seen people using *.cfg (Python Buildout), *.xml (Gnome), *.json (Chrome extension), *.yaml (Google App Engine), *.ini and even *.py for app configuration files (like Djan

Answer 1

According to Python official docs, 'future enhancements to configuration functionality will be added to dictConfig()'.

So any config file which can be used with dictconfig() should be fine.