[Configobj-develop] validating using a default string value that includes a newline character?

[David H. <neg...@gm...>]

I'm having a devil of a time getting validate to allow for the default value
of a string check to consist of a string that includes a newline character
('\n').  I've tried several syntactic variants, and nothing is working - the
validation fails everytime.

E.g.:

    spec = { u'val': u"string(default='%s')" % ('\n') }
    cfgdict = {}

    vtor = validate.Validator()
    cfg = configobj.ConfigObj(cfgdict, configspec=spec)

    results = cfg.validate(vtor, preserve_errors=True)

In addition to the spec as shown above, I've tried:

    spec = { u'val': u"string(default='\n')" }

    spec = { u'val': u""""string(default='
')""" }


I even tried putting the spec into a text block and using splitlines() and
giving that as the configspec argument (where the text block used the
'''<value>''' syntax for multi-line values).

No joy.

The validation parser seems to treat any newline as the end of the spec
definition for that particular value, and either bombs out with a parse
error, or returns False upon validation.

Any tips?  Bug?

thanks,

- David Hostetler