Re: [Configobj-develop] ConfigObj drops quotes sometimes

[Jeffrey B. <jef...@ea...>]

On Friday 16 January 2009 04:07:43 Michael Foord wrote:
> Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> > On Monday 12 January 2009 08:16:57 Michael Foord wrote:
> >> Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> >>> I write the repr of a tuple to my configuration file on exit.  Usually,
> >>> I find "<tuple>" in my configuration file afterward, but occasionally
> >>> the quotation marks are missing.  I have not been able to detect a
> >>> pattern. Any suggestions?
> >>
> >> Is it actually causing any problems?
> >
> > Or worse: If the value in the configuration file is
> >
> > ('a', ['b', 'c'])
> >
> > then I get a ParseError (at line 8) when I try to read it.  That error I
> > cannot fix.
> >
> > BTW, I am using version 4.5.3.
>
> Did you have any luck reproducing this?
>
> Michael

Not really.  The problem occurs only on one platform (maemo) when I interrupt 
the program (^c).  I circumvented the problem by catching the SIGINT so that 
I can write the configuration file.  I do not understand why configobj 
otherwise writes the right data but without the quotes nor why on another 
platform it writes exactly the right data including the quotes.  In fact, I 
don't really understand why it writes anything as the program is exiting.  
There could be an issue with my program, but since the program is exiting 
anyway, I am satisfied with my remedy.

-- 
Jeffrey Barish