Re: [Configobj-develop] String Substitution

[Robin M. <rob...@gm...>]

Here's the patch to change the section search behavior. Instead of
looking only at DEFAULT sections, it will look at the current section,
then its DEFAULT, then move up to the parent section and repeat the
process.

This is a patch against a version of configobj.py that has the 3rd
template interpolation patch (the one in my previous email to this
thread) already applied.

I've also attached the sample .ini file I used for testing, called
"deepsearch.ini", so you can verify for yourself that the code works.

Note that a couple of the documentation changes in this patch
(particularly the ones where InterpolationDepthError was changed to
InterpolationLoopError) should have gone into
3rd-template-interpolation.patch instead. This won't be a problem if
both patches go into the SVN tree, but if you decide to reject the
change-search-behavior.patch and keep the old "only search a few
DEFAULT sections" behavior, then you'll need to cherrypick the
relevant documentation patches out of this patch. Shouldn't be
difficult, since this patch isn't all that large.

I hope this makes it in; I'd really prefer the behavior that this
patch implements.

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Robin Munn
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