Re: [Configobj-develop] Re: ConfigObj unicode Support in SVN

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

Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> Fuzzyman wrote:
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>> Aaron Bentley wrote:
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>> Michael Foord wrote:
>> | I would really appreciate it if you could check this out and try and
>> | break it. Unicode is notoriously fiddly to get right !
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>> This all looks good.  I will try converting bzr to the latest version
>> soon, and let you know.
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>>> Great.
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> I have done this, and I was rather surprised that the output of
> cfg_obj.write() is a list of unicode strings, rather than a list of
> bytestrings.
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Ok - so if an encoding is specified, then ``write()`` should always 
return byte strings. That is what is called an 'over-sight'. :-)

Will be fixed.

> We need to supply our own file objects, so we've been using the lines
> output from cfg_obj.write() up to this point.  The StringIO support
> looks awkward, but probably doable to me.  (Am I right that the public
> member for the StringIO is ConfigObj.filename?)
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Yes.

> My preference would be the ability to specify a file object to
> cfg_obj.write().
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So you'd like to be able to pass a file like object to ``write()``... 
hmmm...

Again, this is something that you used to be able to do with ConfigObj 
3, but I removed to reduce the level of complexity.

To be symmetric with initialisation, you ought then be able to pass in a 
filename as well. Seeing as you can already achieve this just be setting 
the ``filename`` attribute (which ok sounds a little weird for this 
purpose), I decided not to do it.

Hmmm... I guess it wouldn't hurt being able to pass an optional file 
object to write, it's just that the API keeps growing...

Nicola, do you have any take on this ?

All the best,

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml
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