configobj-develop

[Configobj-develop] Is this a bug? Quoted and non-quoted words in a single line

[Jeff B. <its...@gm...>]

ConfigObj raises a parse error when it finds a line with quoted and
non-quoted words in the same line.  The original failure was
discovered when someone tried to write an email as

    email = "name" <na...@ex...>

I'm attaching a patch with a failing test.  It's against
configobj_test.py from the latest configobj.zip, since I didn't find
the test file in svn.

Cheers,
Jeff Balogh

Re: [Configobj-develop] Is this a bug? Quoted and non-quoted words in a single line

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

Jeff Balogh wrote:
> ConfigObj raises a parse error when it finds a line with quoted and
> non-quoted words in the same line.  The original failure was
> discovered when someone tried to write an email as
>
>     email = "name" <na...@ex...>
>
> I'm attaching a patch with a failing test.  It's against
> configobj_test.py from the latest configobj.zip, since I didn't find
> the test file in svn.
>   

I don't think this is a bug. Quotes are used to 'contain' values, and if 
a line starts with double quotes it is fair to assume it is a quoted value.

It would unnecessarily complicate the parser to change this behaviour. 
At least you can use:
   
    email = '"name" <na...@ex...>'

I would certainly consider a patch though. :-)

Michael
> Cheers,
> Jeff Balogh
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