Re: [Configobj-develop] Re: ConfigObj

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

Nicola Larosa wrote:

>>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.
>  
>

I'll implement this and do an update.

The new option/attribute to be called ``write_empty_values``.

All the best,

Fuzzyman
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