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Re: configobj validation

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Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> writes:

> On 03/19/2012 12:59 PM, Andrea Crotti wrote:
>> I seemed to remember that type validation and type conversion worked
>> out of the box, but now
>> I can't get it working anymore.
>>
>> Shouldn't this simple example actually fail the parsing (instead it
>> parses perfectly port to a string)?
>>
>> sample.py:
>> from configobj import ConfigObj
>>
>> conf = ConfigObj('sample.conf', configspec='sample.spec')
>>
>> sample.conf:
>> port = some_string
>>
>> sample.spec:
>> port = integer(0, 10)
>>
>> PS. using configobj 4.7.2
>
> I now checked the repo and configobj seems also quite dead (2 years
> ago last version), it's a pity because it's a really nice library.
> Any other alternatives for validation/configuration systems otherwise?

It works - so why do you bother? And I'm not sure about the above code -
AFAIK, validation is a two-step thing:

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/configobj.shtml#validation

Diez

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Re: configobj validation Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-03-19 14:44 +0000
  Re: configobj validation deets@web.de (Diez B. Roggisch) - 2012-03-21 12:40 +0100
    Re: configobj validation Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-03-21 13:06 +0000

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