----- Original Message -----
From: Fuzzyman <fuz...@vo...>
Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 2:29 am
Subject: Re: [Configobj-develop] interpolation supported in the
specification file ?
> Jim Vickroy wrote:
>
> > Is interpolation supported in default specifications or is this a
> > total abuse of the package? If interpolations are supported,
> then I
> > do not understand how to make them work in the specification
> file.
> > Here is the output from the attached script:
> >
> Interpolation is working - there is a bug in your logic :-D
>
> Your string containing the interpolation value is :
>
> string(default="fuzzy-%(man)s")
>
> You have defined 'man' in your DEFAULT section to be :
>
> string(default="man")
>
> So ConfigObj replaces ``%(man)s`` with ``string(default="man")``. The
> result is :
>
> fuzzy-string(default="man")
>
> Try replacing the line in your DEFAULT section with :
>
> man = wuzzy
>
> That should do something a bit more expected. :-)
OK, thanks for the correction.
>
> *However* - that will then raise an error because the default section
> doesn't contain a valid check.
>
> Your code will still print "validation succeeded" - because check
> is now
> a dictionary, which doesn't evaluate to False.
>
> if check:
> print '*** validation succeeded ***'
>
> Should be changed to :
>
> if check == True::
> print '*** validation succeeded ***'
Thanks again.
>
> The answer is for validation to *not* be done on the 'DEFAULT'
> section.
Is it, therefore, correct to conclude that interpolations are best done
in a config file because, if present in a configspec file, they can not
be validated, but that this will change with the 4.1.0 release?
> I'm targeting all the discussed recent changes/bugfixes for a 4.1.0
> release.
> All the best,
>
> Fuzzyman
>
> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml
>
> > <output>
> > sys.platform: win32
> > sys.version: 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC
> > v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
> > sys.getwindowsversion(): (5, 1, 2600, 2, 'Service Pack 2')
> > sys.winver: 2.4
> >
> > configobj.__version__: 4.0.2
> > validate.__version__: 0.2.0
> >
> > *** validation succeeded ***
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "C:\Documents and Settings\jim.vickroy\My
> > Documents\Projects\_experimental_\pythonutils\configobj\test-
> reader.py",> line 55, in ?
> > assert facts['interpolated string'] == 'fuzzy-man',
> > facts['interpolated string']
> > AssertionError: fuzzy-string(default="man")
> > </output>
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -- jv
>
>
>
>
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