Handy set of tips and tricks with Python dicts #python #dicts #tricks #howto : "Get the most out of Python dicts"(https://open.substack.com/pub/bitecode/p/get-the-most-out-of-python-dicts?r=1slq0e&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post)

Anyone experience in #parsing (not interested in filtering with regex) configuration #files? Currently I am reading config files in #Python3 line by line where each line is a full configuration command and converting that into a “path” to a value using nested #dicts. This works fine with smallish configs, but very large configs do not scale, at all. Think a jump from a minute to multiple hours. There is *no* existing code I have been able to find. I can’t change file format to something else.