Re: [Configobj-develop] Re: ConfigObj

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

> Nicola (ConfigObj co-developer) - the last three support queries I've
> had for ConfigObj have all been to do with empty values. It seems that a
> lot of people are using ConfigObj to parse ini files created elsewhere.
> 
> IIRC the empty value *is* part of the normal ini spec. (A later version
> of ConfigObj 3 supported them.) Would you object to me extending
> ConfigObj to read empty values ?
> 
> A logical counterpart to this is an additional option (default False)
> allowing you to specify that ConfigObj should write out empty values in
> place of the empty string.
> 
> What do you think ?

I don't know about the INI specs, but it seems a reasonable requirement,
and since there are real use cases, I'd say go ahead.

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