[Configobj-develop] Strings with "#" should be quoted before writing

[Osmo S. <ots...@cc...>]

Hello,

I use configobj and validate to store configurations in Gaupol [1].  One
of the things saved  in the configuration file is a list of patterns the
user has searched for.  I just noticed that if the user searches for
"#", the string gets saved in the configuration file with no escaping or
quoting and upon reading seems to be interpreted as an in-line comment.
This is especially problematic if "#" is the first item in the list, in
which case the value is interpreted as an empty string instead of an
empty list!

I think the following patch to the "_quote" method should fix that.

--- configobj.orig.py   2007-07-16 02:18:27.000000000 +0300
+++ configobj.py        2007-07-16 02:20:46.000000000 +0300
@@ -1674,7 +1674,7 @@
                     value)
             elif ((value[0] not in wspace_plus) and
                     (value[-1] not in wspace_plus) and
-                    (',' not in value)):
+                    (',' not in value) and ('#' not in value)):
                 quot = noquot
             else:
                 if ("'" in value) and ('"' in value):

[1] http://home.gna.org/gaupol/

Thanks,
Osmo Salomaa