Re: [Configobj-develop] List values

[T. H. <har...@ya...>]

Thanks for the fast response.

This is what I'm doing in my script to convert the single value to a list. Perhaps there is a better way.
if type(pathList) == type(''):
    pathList = [pathList]

I don't really like the the special syntax with a trailing comma (similar to the python syntax to create a tuple with 1 element). It's easy to forget it yourself, but if other people are going to write ini files it's a disaster waiting to happen.

I haven't checked out configspec, but it looks like the way to go. For now I'm going to leave it the way it is - I may add a utility function to get values for keywords that should be lists.

Hari



----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Foord <fuz...@vo...>
To: T. Hariharan <har...@ya...>; con...@li...
Sent: Monday, December 1, 2008 2:24:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Configobj-develop] List values

T. Hariharan wrote:
> When you have a keyword that has a list of values, eg:
>
> PathList = /path1, /path2
>
> config['PathList'] returns a list of values. However if you have only one value:
>
> PathList = /path1
>
> config['PathList'] returns a string value.
>
> It would be nice if you can tell ConfigObj to always return values for certain keywords as a list, even if there is only one value. In the second case above, config['PathList'] would return [ '/path1' ]. Is there a way to do this? I'm sure others would have run into this issue.
>  

An even better way to achieve this would be to create a custom 
configspec with a check function that can take a single value or a list 
and always returns a list.

All the best,

Michael Foord

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