[Configobj-develop] Validating with __many__...

[Marc T. <mar...@gm...>]

Hi all -

I hope this is not a horribly stupid question...

I'm setting up my configspec thusly:


>     tmpStr = """[Current]
>     npiXMLFile = string(default="npiMap.XML")
>     InHist = string_list(default=None)
>     OutHist = string_list(default=None)
>     Submitter = string(default=None)
>     Carrier = string(default=None)
>     MainSize = tuple()
>     MainPos = tuple()
>     SummarySize = tuple()
>     SummaryPos = tuple()
>     ConfirmSuccess = boolean(default=True)
>     CvtCarrier = boolean(default=False)
>     KeepLicense = boolean(default=False)
>     KeepInsID = boolean(default=False)
>     KeepTaxID = boolean(default=True)
>     KeepUxIN = boolean(default=True)
>     KeepFacID = boolean(default=False)
>     UseSecID = boolean(default=False)
>     FixSSN = boolean(default=True)
>     DNtoDQ = boolean(default=False)
>     [JobProfiles]
>     [[__many__]]
>     Submitter = string(default=" ")
>     Carrier = string(default=" ")
>     CvtCarrier = boolean(default=False)
>     KeepLicense = boolean(default=False)
>     KeepInsID = boolean(default=False)
>     KeepTaxID = boolean(default=True)
>     KeepUxIN = boolean(default=True)
>     KeepFacID = boolean(default=False)
>     UseSecID = boolean(default=False)
>     FixSSN = boolean(default=True)
>     DNtoDQ = boolean(default=False)
>     InFile = string(default="")
>     OutFile = string(default="")
>     """
>     cfgSpec = StringIO.StringIO(tmpStr)
>     cfgFile = ConfigObj(cfgFileName,
>                 configspec=cfgSpec, raise_errors=True, write_empty_values =
> True,
>                 create_empty=True, indent_type='    ', list_values = True)
>     vtor = Validator()
>

and validating it thusly:

>     test = cfgFile.validate(vtor, copy=True)
>     cfgFile.write()
>

My actual ini file looks like so:

> [Current]
>     npiXMLFile = file:///E:/ultrahld/npiMap.xml
>     Submitter = 1234567
>     Carrier = ColoradoMedicare
>     ConfirmSuccess = True
>     KeepLicense = False
>     KeepInsID = False
>     KeepTaxID = True
>     KeepUxIN = False
>     KeepFacID = False
>     UseSecID = True
>     FixSSN = True
>     DNtoDQ = False
>     InHist = E:\ultrahld\MCARE06.837, E:\ultrahld\MCARE04.837,
> E:\bbs\out.837
>     OutHist = E:\bbs\out.837, E:\bbs\MCAL03.NPI
>     CvtCarrier = True
> [JobProfiles]
>     [[Bogus]]
>         Submitter = 8675309
>         Carrier = NHIC
>         CvtCarrier = False
>         KeepLicense = False
>         KeepInsID = False
>         KeepTaxID = True
>         KeepUxIN = True
>         KeepFacID = False
>         UseSecID = False
>         FixSSN = True
>         DNtoDQ = False
>         InFile = E:\ultrahld\MCARE04.837
>         OutFile = E:\bbs\out.837
>     [[ReallyBogus]]
>         Submitter = 345678
>         Carrier = NHIC
>         CvtCarrier = False
>         KeepLicense = False
>         KeepInsID = False
>         KeepTaxID = True
>         KeepUxIN = True
>         KeepFacID = False
>         UseSecID = False
>         FixSSN = True
>         DNtoDQ = False
>         InFile = E:\ultrahld\MCARE03.837
>         OutFile = E:\bbs\out.837
>

If I cut the file short after [JobProfiles], all is well, but if I include
[[Bogus]] or [[ReallyBogus]] the validation blows up with the following:
Traceback (most recent call last):

>  File "E:\fsrPy\FSR-X12\fsr_x12.pyw", line 538, in <module>
> main()
>  File "E:\fsrPy\FSR-X12\fsr_x12.pyw", line 530, in main
> test = Global.cfgFile.validate(Global.vtor, copy=True)
>  File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\configobj.py", line 2301, in validate
> copy=copy, section=section[entry])
>  File "c:\python25\lib\site-packages\configobj.py", line 2297, in validate
> section.comments[entry] = section._cs_section_comments[entry]
> KeyError: 'Bogus'
> Script terminated.
>

I was poking around adding pprint() statements in configobj.py, and the
problem seems to be that when "__many__" occurs in the configspec, no
entries are created in section._cs_section_comments - which of course they
wouldn't be, because we don't know what the subsection names are yet.

I'm not actually using comments, and probably never will, so I suppose I
could just rip out all of that... but there must be a better way, and I
can't possibly be the only one who's run into this.  However, I haven't seen
it mentioned in the list archives, so I suspect I'm doing something wrong.
What should I do?

Windows XP Pro SP3
Python 2.5.1
wxPython 2.8.7.1
ConfigObj 4

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