[Answer]-What file format to use for Django configuration which can be frequently updated using Django forms

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The easiest thing would probably be to serialize to JSON or YAML. However, if you want a more human-readable format that is more strictly a set of key-value pairs, you might use the ConfigParser module. It reads and writes INI-style configuration files, like this:

[section]
key = value

Here is an example of writing out a configuration file based on a form’s cleaned_data:

In [39]: from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser

In [40]: cleaned_data = {'foo': 'bar', 'bob': 'ann'}

In [41]: config = SafeConfigParser()

In [42]: config.add_section('my_form')

In [43]: for field, value in cleaned_data.iteritems():
   ....:     config.set('my_form', field, value)
   ....:

In [44]: with open('example.cfg', 'w') as config_file:
   ....:     config.write(config_file)
   ....: 

In [45]: cat example.cfg
[my_form]
bob = ann
foo = bar
👤Chris Lawlor

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