RE: [Configobj-develop] General Questions.

[George F. <Geo...@sa...>]

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Michael Foord
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Subject: Re: [Configobj-develop] General Questions.

George Flaherty wrote:
> I have been evaluating ConfigObj4 and I was wondering if you could =
answer two questions.....
>
> 1. Can I have an ini file with empty values and some other values? Or =
am I missing some default option?
> Assume I have the following property file (notice no sections)
>
> foobar.mapfile=3Djunk
> #Path to the .xml mapfile
>
> foobar.mapfile.name=3Dmorejunk
> #Path to the mapfile
>
> foobar.export.csvpath=3D
> #Path to the csv directory
>
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Empty values are not currently supported by ConfigObj. Are they standard =
in most other tools that use an 'ini style' format ?

I've never come across them before, but this is the second question =
about them in as many weeks.


[George]
Yeah....I really shouldn't call this an ini file, it's really a property =
file. In my case which might not be standard, I could run into an empty =
value within a key=3Dvalue pair.

Yet there is a happy ending to this issue. I wrote a java subclass which =
writes out "these" property files, and enforced that all values of the =
key=3Dvalue pairs will have some type of value. Now I can successfully =
parse the property file with ConfigObj4...


Thanks for your help. I will now review the ConfigObj4 code to see if I =
can modify it for ${value} vs %(value)s

george

[/George]

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