Lists in ConfigParser

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I am using a combination of ConfigParser and JSON:

[Foo]
fibs: [1,1,2,3,5,8,13]

just read it with:

>>> json.loads(config.get("Foo","fibs"))
[1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13]

You can even break lines if your list is long (thanks @peter-smit):

[Bar]
files_to_check = [
     "/path/to/file1",
     "/path/to/file2",
     "/path/to/another file with space in the name"
     ]

Of course i could just use JSON, but i find config files much more readable, and the [DEFAULT] Section very handy.

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