HOCON (Human-Optimized Config Object Notation)
Introduction, with comparison to other formats
- Examples
- Parsing into dataclasses
pyhocon + pydantic: https://gist.github.com/martin1keogh/2817e338fb06ad3573cffcfb8e713ac7
another pyhocon + pydantic: https://gist.github.com/GreyElaina/d851e9c9304085f7101d45725d378f68
pyhocon: Provides CLI tool for conversion between formats
- Dataclasses for configuration management
dataconf: HOCON output by default
Others
- HConfig
- Dhall
HCL
TOML
YAML
crdoconnor/strictyaml: Type-safe parser and validator, subset of YAML 2.0
Hjson
ucl (Universal Configuration Language)
- Used by FreeBSD, very similar to nginx
- Seems best, similar to HOCON, but no modern Python package?
Install python bindings from libucl git repo: https://github.com/vstakhov/libucl/issues/202
nginx conf
crossplane-ng / [[https://github.com/nginxinc/crossplane|crossplane] parses nginx conf in Python