Re: [Configobj-develop] Problem with unrepr mode

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

Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> On Saturday 20 September 2008 18:55:17 Jeffrey Barish wrote:
>   
>> Configobj was working fine until I switched to using unrepr mode.  Now it
>> works fine on one platform, but on another the same code produces the
>> following error:
>>
>>   ...
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/configobj.py", line 1272, in
>> __init__ self._load(infile, configspec)
>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/configobj.py", line 1355, in _load
>>     raise error
>> configobj.ConfigObjError: Parsing failed with several errors.
>> First error at line 3.
>>
>> Line 3 is:
>>
>> v = 0.77304964539007093
>>
>> I am using version 4.5.3 on python 2.5.2.  Considering that the same rc
>> file works fine on the other platform, I am at a loss as to what to do. 
>> Any suggestions?
>>     
>
> The problem appears to arise because there is no compiler module on this 
> platform (Nokia N800).
>
> Do I have any options other than returning to code like
>
> if x == 'True'
>   

unrepr mode relies on the compiler module - so it won't work on a 
platform that doesn't provide it.

You could use validate and a configspec to convert types instead.


Michael

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