Re: [Configobj-develop] [python] Empty Default Values

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Daniel Watkins wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> A couple of friends and I are writing an IRC bot, uChoob[0], and until
> relatively recently were using ConfigParser.  However, we found that it
> didn't live up to our needs.  As I'm a contributor to Bazaar, I took a
> look at what they used, which brought us to ConfigObj.
>
> First of all, I'd like to thank you for an excellent project.  It's
> made life much easier for us.  Part of what has made it particularly
> easy is the validation and type marshalling that you do for us, through
> validate.py.
>
> However, I'm running into problems when I want a string config option
> to default to the empty string.  If I use any of:
>   prefix = string(default='')
>   prefix = string(default="")
>   prefix = string(default=None)
> and don't specify a value in the config file, then prefix is set to '',
> "" 

Does this *not* mean that prefix is set to an empty string?

If it *does* mean that then what actually do you want to happen?

Michael
http://www.manning.com/foord

> or 'None' respectively.  If I use
>   prefix = string(default=)
> then no default is set and I get a validation error.
>
> Is there any way to get around this?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dan
>
>
> [Footnote 0: This should actually be mu-Choob, but ANSI didn't think to
>              include the Greek alphabet in the 128 characters available
>              to them. :p]
>
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