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

[Michael F. <fuz...@vo...>]

Hello Osmo,

This problem with ConfigObj is now fixed in SVN. Sorry it took so long. 
A new release will follow shortly.

Michael

Osmo Salomaa wrote:
> 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
>
>
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