Configuration & Data Formats

Tools for reading and validating settings and structured data.

Wrote the same repetitive class code one too many times, so its creator taught Python to write it for you.

A lightweight guard dog for your dictionaries, checking every key and value before letting them through.

Teaches Python's tidy little data containers how to speak fluent JSON.

The rulebook checker that makes sure a piece of JSON actually follows the rules it claims to follow.

A translator that turns messy Python objects into clean JSON and back again, no confusion allowed.

The bouncer that checks every piece of data at the door before your program lets it in.

The quiet helper that keeps your passwords out of your code and out of GitHub by accident.

The reader that turns those indented, human-friendly config files into something a computer understands.

A config file format one GitHub co-founder built because YAML's quirks were driving him up the wall.