[Configobj-develop] problems with non standard types like, wx.Colour

[Stef M. <s.m...@ru...>]

hello,

I'm using ConfigObj for writing/reading inifiles for a couple of months.
Until now I did a number of conversions myself,
but now I discovered a number of switches,
which in general do it much better than my own program (no wonder ;-)
These are my switches

    list_values = True,
    write_empty_values = True,
    unrepr = True )

It looks really good, even for complex nested structures.
But I've a few problems with non-standard types, like wx.Colour,
which is basically a tupple with some constraints.
In writing, ConfigObj writes: 

CS_SN1 = [wx.Colour(224, 224, 224, 255),  True, True, True, False]

that seems great, but ...
... I get an error if ConfigObj tries to read it back.

So I made a workaround, which works ok:

  def Write (self, name, value):
    if type(value) in [bool,int,str,float,list,tuple] :
      self[self.Section][name.strip()] = value
    else :
      try :
        # try to convert to tupple,
        # something like a wx.Colour can not be read back,
        # but can just as well be written/read as a tupple
        value = tuple ( value )
        self[self.Section][name.strip()] = value
      except :
        self[self.Section][name.strip()] = str(value)
    self.Modified = True

Why can't ConfigObj not read back wx.Colour (and others) ?
Any switches not set correct ?
And if it's not possible, is my workaround correct (btw doesn't work for 
nested non-standard types) ?

thanks,
Stef Mientki