[Configobj-develop] 4.7.2 in svn

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

Hello all,

ConfigObj 4.7.2 is in subversion and ready to release. I would 
appreciate it if any of you could test it and check there are no obvious 
issues before I do a release tomorrow.

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

It fixes a number of bugs:

* BUGFIX: Restore Python 2.3 compatibility
* BUGFIX: Members that were lists were being returned as copies due to 
interpolation
introduced in 4.7. Lists are now only copies if interpolation changes a list
member.
* BUGFIX: ``pop`` now does interpolation in list values as well.
* BUGFIX: where interpolation matches a section name rather than a value 
it is
ignored instead of raising an exception on fetching the item.
* BUGFIX: values that use interpolation to reference members that don't 
exist can
now be repr'd.
* BUGFIX: Fix to avoid writing '\r\r\n' on Windows when `write` is given 
a file opened in
text mode ('w').

The most important fix is that list values are no longer returned as 
copies, except where interpolation changes a value in the list. This 
means that fetching list values is slightly slower than before as it has 
to check afterwards if interpolation has changed any of the members. 
Switching interpolation off if you are not using it fixes this. If this 
causes difficulties then perhaps interpolation into list values should 
be separately configurable, although that would add yet another option 
to the not inconsiderable constructor arguments that ConfigObj has already.

There are a number of outstanding issues most of which are feature 
requests and will have to wait for a 4.8.0 release:

http://code.google.com/p/configobj/issues/list

All the best,

Michael Foord

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