Re: [Configobj-develop] getting line numbers of config file entries

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

Cameron Stone wrote:
> Michael Foord wrote:
>   
>> Cameron Stone wrote:
>>     
>>> I just found this very handy library, and I'm loving it.
>>>
>>> I'm using sections with options containing values that are
>>> comma-separated lists. These lists are meant to have 4 values, some of
>>> which can be empty.
>>>
>>> I have 2 questions:
>>>
>>> 1) I found the list_values parameter to turn off auto-conversion to
>>> list, because it was filtering out the empty entries (and returning
>>> lists with less than 4 entries). Is it possible to configure ConfigObj
>>> to leave the empty entries in the list?
>>>   
>>>       
>> What do you mean by 'empty entries'?
>>     
>
> I mean the four entries look like:
> key_string = Value1,Value2, ,Value4
>   

And how should the missing entry look - it isn't an empty string (''), 
it isn't None - it just isn't there. That should probably be a syntax error.

How about getting your users to put an empty string instead?

Michael

>   
>> There is no API for fetching line numbers of entries with ConfigObj I'm 
>> afraid.
>>     
>
> No worries. I'm sure my users can figure it out.
>
> Thanks
>
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