Re: [Configobj-develop] General Questions.

[Fuzzyman <fuz...@vo...>]

George Flaherty wrote:
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> Michael Foord
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 3:31 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Configobj-develop] General Questions.
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> 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=junk
> > #Path to the .xml mapfile
> >
> > foobar.mapfile.name=morejunk
> > #Path to the mapfile
> >
> > foobar.export.csvpath=
> > #Path to the csv directory
> >
> >  
> 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=value 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=value pairs will have some type of value. Now I can 
> successfully parse the property file with ConfigObj4...
>
Great.

Note that the following is perfectly valid for ConfigObj :

    key = ''

All the best,

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

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