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

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

On Dec 15, 2007 8:17 AM, Michael Foord <fuz...@vo...> wrote:
> Daniel Watkins wrote:
> > 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?

I understood him to mean that the prefix gets set to one of:

- a string consisting of two single quotes
- a string consisting of two double quotes
- a string containing the word "None"

and what he actually wants is an empty string.

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