[Configobj-develop] 4.7.0 ready for release (beta I guess)

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

Hello all,

After a long time ConfigObj 4.7.0 is nearly ready for release. All that 
is needed are updates to the documentation.

If you'd like to try out the new version it is at:

    http://code.google.com/p/configobj/source/browse/trunk/configobj.py

I don't think I'll do a beta unless you clamour for it?

The changelist is:

* Minimum supported version of Python is now 2.3
* ~25% performance improvement thanks to Christian Heimes
* String interpolation now works in list value members
* After validation any additional entries not in the configspec are 
listed in
  the ``extra_values`` section member
* Addition of the ``get_extra_values`` function for finding all extra values
  in a validated ConfigObj instance
* Deprecated the use of the ``options`` dictionary in the ConfigObj 
constructor
  and added explicit keyword arguments instead. Use **options if you want
  to initialise a ConfigObj instance from a dictionary

* BUGFIX: Checks that failed validation would not populate 
'default_values' and
  'restore_default_value' wouldn't work for those entries
* BUGFIX: clear() clears 'defaults'
* BUGFIX: empty values in list values were accidentally valid syntax. 
They now
  raise a ``ParseError``. e.g. "value = 1, , 2"
* BUGFIX: Change to the result of a call to ``validate`` when 
``preserve_errors``
  is True. Previously sections where *all* values failed validation would
  return False for the section rather than preserving the errors. False will
  now only be returned for a section if it is missing

* Distribution includes version 1.0.1 of validate.py
* Removed __revision__ and __docformat__

All the best,

Michael Foord

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