Recommended practices for model configuration storage

[galenseilis]

I am thinking about how to develop and maintain model configurations.

• I could use ciw.create_network to develop an instance of the ciw.network class and then serialize it.
• I could keep that configuration information in a format such as XML or JSON.
• Or something else?

Whichever way I would want to keep things in a versioning system (git).

[geraintpalmer]

We used to have .yml files for this, however it got much more complicated when some inputs were functions or objects, and it got a bit messy when combining with numpy arrays.

I find that the Python file itself if sufficient, as the inputs to ciw.create_network are so readable.

I would recommend keeping models as separate Python files creating the networks, and just importing them into the main script.