I'm designing a program to copy large files over not-reliable-enough connections. That is, it will read as much as it can before the connection vanishes, and record the state of how far it got. When run again (after re-establishing the connection) it will seek to the correct spot and continue. The same process can make a second or nth pass to validate, as well as copy to a destination.

So, I need to store some simple values in a file and read it again later.

What's a good "settings" module? My needs are simple, but I want labeled human-readable values not just a colon-separated list, and may add more values later. The Windows .ini files are not portable if using the built-in OS functions to access them.

I figure obtaining and learning a good one, even if its overkill, so I can use it in future projects as well.

—John

In reply to Storing program settings and state by John M. Dlugosz

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