configobj-develop

Re: [Configobj-develop] Continuation for multi-line data

[Justus P. <ju...@ry...>]

[I found this thread in the archives...]

Abhi initially said:
>> I see in the documentation that the use of '\' as a continuation
>> character for multi-line data is no longer supported in ConfigObj 4.

To which Fuzzyman responded:
>  I'm afraid I don't like '\' as continuation syntax, and won't add it
>  back to ConfigObj.
>  
>  The correct way to create multiline values is with triple quote
>  strings

Except ConfigObj3 let you create a multi-line list like:

foo = a, \
	b, \
 	c

But ConfigObj4 just turns the following into a big (and useless to me)
string:
foo = """a,
	b,
	c"""

Re: [Configobj-develop] Continuation for multi-line data

[Michael F. <fuz...@vo...>]

Justus Pendleton wrote:
> [I found this thread in the archives...]
>
> Abhi initially said:
>   
>>> I see in the documentation that the use of '\' as a continuation
>>> character for multi-line data is no longer supported in ConfigObj 4.
>>>       
>
> To which Fuzzyman responded:
>   
>>  I'm afraid I don't like '\' as continuation syntax, and won't add it
>>  back to ConfigObj.
>>  
>>  The correct way to create multiline values is with triple quote
>>  strings
>>     
>
> Except ConfigObj3 let you create a multi-line list like:
>
> foo = a, \
> 	b, \
>  	c
>
> But ConfigObj4 just turns the following into a big (and useless to me)
> string:
> foo = """a,
> 	b,
> 	c"""
>   

What about preprocessing as I suggested ?

infile = open(filename).read().splitlines()

processedFile = []
x = 0
while x < len(infile):
    line = infile[x]
    x += 1
    while line.endswith('\\'):
       line = line[:-1]
       x += 1
       if x == len(infile):
          break
       line += infile[x]
    processedFile.append(line)

Then pass processedFile to ConfigObj. Something like that anyway...

Fuzzyman
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