On: What is wrong with TOML? (2019)

[dagw]

You're missing the point. Power came not from Excel the file format, but Excel the GUI tool for editing Excel files. You cannot have drop-downs and colour pickers and separate tabs and embedded images in a single python file without writing a a whole custom GUI config tool.

[nonethewiser → dagw]

Python can and often is edited by GUI tools with color pickers and dropdowns. IDEs such as Vscode have these.

Also, I said “most.” Not, “there exist no exceptions.”