ConfigObj

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 4.5.1

Notes:
This release fixes several bugs, adds a few new features and has minor performance enhancements.

Changes:
Distribution updated to include version 0.3.1 of validate. This means that Unicode configspecs now work - plus several other bugfixes in the validate 0.3.0 release.

ConfigObj will now guarantee that files will be written terminated with a newline.

ConfigObj will no longer attempt to import the ``validate`` module, until/unless you call ``ConfigObj.validate`` with ``preserve_errors=True``. This makes it faster to import.

New methods ``restore_default`` and ``restore_defaults``. ``restore_default`` resets an entry to its default value (and returns that value). ``restore_defaults`` resets all entries to their default value. It doesn't modify entries without a default value. You must have validated a ConfigObj (which populates the ``default_values`` dictionary) before calling these methods.

BUGFIX: Proper quoting of keys, values and list values that contain hashes (when writing).  When ``list_values=False``, values containing hashes are triple quoted.

Added the ``reload`` method. This reloads a ConfigObj from file. If the filename attribute is not set then a ``ReloadError`` (a new exception inheriting from ``IOError``) is raised.

BUGFIX: Files are read in with 'rb' mode, so that native/non-native line endings work!

Minor efficiency improvement in ``unrepr`` mode.

Added missing docstrings for some overidden dictionary methods.

Added the ``reset`` method. This restores a ConfigObj to a freshly created state.

Removed old CHANGELOG file.