[Netconf-devel] Please test my /e/n/i parser

martin f krafft madduck@debian.org
Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:32:56 +0200


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also sprach Thomas Hood <jdthood@aglu.demon.nl> [2005.04.19.1645 +0200]:
> I have written and attached a Python program to parse
> /etc/network/interfaces into data structures useful for possible
> further work on network configuration tools written in Python.
> Please test on _your_ /etc/network/interfaces file and let me know
> whether or not you are able to break it.  :)

Mh, I will, but I don't think it's a good idea to go down the Python
route. I love Python dearly, but if we want netconf to be accepted,
we cannot expect Python to be added to base just like that.

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