Re: [Rest2web-develop] Down with writein

[Nicola L. <ni...@te...>]

> The main use case was to allow the creation of a ConfigObj that
> represented part of a file. It meant making an arbitrary decision about
> what to do if the ConfigObj was changed (the keys in the object no
> longer match the keys in the file). On the basis of YAGNI I figured I
> could lose it...

Go ahead, lighter is better. ;-)


> Would you prefer it if I just kept all comments, even if separated by
> blank lines ?

Yes. :-) Best if you could keep blank lines too. :-D


> I thought this could end up associating comments with the wrong value.
> As a side effect it means that there is no way of providing a comment
> for the *first* key/section. It will all be swallowed up by initial_comment.

Why don't you do away with the notions of initial_comment, final_comment,
and associating comments with config items, and instead keep all non-data
lines just as they are?

You could do this by using a third sequence, say "self.comments", and
interleaving its elements with self.scalars and self.sections somehow.

-- 
Nicola Larosa - ni...@te...

If there are a few shark attacks in Florida - and a graphic movie -
suddenly every swimmer is worried. More people are killed every year by
pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk.
 -- Bruce Schneier, May 2005