[Rest2web-develop] ConfigObj Commit

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

Hello Nicola,

Just committed more changes to ConfigObj.

Renamed private attributes with a single underscore prefix.
Changes to interpolation - exceeding recursion depth,
    or specifying a missing value, now raise errors.
Changes for Python 2.2 compatibility.
    (changed boolean tests - removed ``is True`` and ``is False``)
Added test for duplicate section and member (and fixed bug)


I *might* have some time during the day to look at the validate issues.
(type checking and type conversion).
First of all I'll add stringify and transforming validation.
This will do the type conversion when you write files and when you validate.

Can you think of any config information you might want to store where
the *type* of the value will be ambiguous ?
For example any config options where you might want a string or a number ?

The key thing is having a good standard set of validate functions that
take care of all the common cases .
Basic types :

    float
    decimal
    integer
    string
    date/time
    boolean   
    None
    lists of any of these

All these basic sorts it would be *very* simple to detect and
automatically convert.

Mark Andrews also favoured a regex approach as well - for things like
post codes (zip codes), phone numbers, IP addresses. Obviously this will
only check that the value matches the spec - not do any transformation.

Can you tell that I'm procrastinating writing the ``writein`` method...

Best Regards,

Fuzzy
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python