Re: [Configobj-develop] List handling in Validator

[Entity R. <ent...@gm...>]

Wouldn't you mean:
conf['mylist'] = [1,2,3]
Otherwise you are feeding the object a string.

On Jan 4, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Stefan Parviainen <pa...@ik...> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 5:03 PM, David Hostetler <neg...@gm...> wrote:
>> config["foo"] = '1,2'  is Python code!!
> OK, it seems clear that my point is not getting across at all. It
> seems difficult to convey what I'm trying to say over the internet, so
> after this I'm giving up on this point, and will simply continue to
> use a workaround in my own program.
>
> Consider the spec:
> myint = integer
> mylist = list
>
> Assume conf is of type ConfigObj using the above mentioned spec.
>
> conf['myint'] = '1'
> conf[mylist'] = '1,2,3'
>
> After validation myint will be converter to integer while mylist will
> _not_ be converted to a list. I simply do not understand why one is
> converted but the other isn't. You may very well be right, and I'm
> wrong, and I see little point in continuing to argue about this weird
> behaviour, especially since there's a simple workaround that I already
> use in my programs.
>
> --
> Stefan Parviainen
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