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

[Nicola L. <ni...@te...>]

>> My preference would be the ability to specify a file object to
>> cfg_obj.write().

> 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 ?

Well, it actually feels a little awkward that ConfigObj is in the business
of opening files, and having to store the filename in an attribute. It
seems best that ``write`` just receives a file-like object, and be done
with it.

This seems a worthy addition to me. At this point you probably have to keep
the filename attribute for compatibility anyway, but maybe you could even
find a way to deprecate it? :-)

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