Re: [Configobj-develop] new to configobj - questions

[Jeremy G. <jr...@gm...>]

> Thanks for tracking this down - however I don't think that it is a bug.
> If the only values in a missing section have defaults then there are no
> missing values

yes, makes sense. but....

> and nothing to report.

it seems to me that there is something that validate could usefully
report (and I guess I was expecting it to): if all values in a section
are being reverted to the defaults, then there is at least the
possibility that they have been changed right under the user's nose.
so it would be nice for validate to convey this to the outside world
somehow, eg by reporting 'True' 'Default' rather than just True? It
seems like returning 'True' is overly silent about this situation.

eventually I'll be structuring things so that my users cannot edit the
config file directly, avoiding this situation.

> In order to fill in the default
> ConfigObj *has* to create the section so it is no longer missing.

that makes sense.

thanks again,

--Jeremy


> It would also make things harder for error handling code - if you have
> to handle a missing section then you would no longer know if the section
> is actually present in the resulting ConfigObj instance or not...
>
> All the best,
>
> Michael Foord
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