[issue39860] configparser - no support for cascading defaults (as defined by MySQL)

2022-02-09 Thread Ben Griffin
Ben Griffin added the comment: This is still being ignored. It's a bug, because it prevents the ini file from being used by other clients. -- versions: +Python 3.10, Python 3.11, Python 3.8, Python 3.9 ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.

[issue41212] Emoji Unicode failing in standard release of Python 3.8.3 / tkinter 8.6.8

2020-07-06 Thread Ben Griffin
Ben Griffin added the comment: Wow, well if you are right, then TCL/TK is a showstopper for us, and we will have to consider an alternative to tkinter. Frankly, I am aghast that any active software would be limited to fixed width characters. We moved our languages over to multiwidth (utf-8

[issue41212] Emoji Unicode failing in standard release of Python 3.8.3 / tkinter 8.6.8

2020-07-05 Thread Ben Griffin
Ben Griffin added the comment: Erm, I don’t rightly know how to parse epaine’s comment, as it seems to relate to a version of Unicode from over a decade ago, and a wiki page that was written 12 years ago. IIRC Python 3 was (IMO rightly) developed to default to UTF-8, and according to a much

[issue41212] Emoji Unicode failing in standard release of Python 3.8.3 / tkinter 8.6.8

2020-07-05 Thread Ben Griffin
New submission from Ben Griffin : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62713741/tkinter-and-32-bit-unicode-duplicating-any-fix Emoji are doubling up when using canvas.create_text() This is reported to work on tcl/tk 8.6.10 but there’s no. Way to upgrade tcl/tk using the standard installs from

[issue39860] configparser - no support for cascading defaults (as defined by MySQL)

2020-03-05 Thread Ben Griffin
Ben Griffin added the comment: Having looked at the code, I believe that it is best NOT to interfere with the 'default_section' value of the class, as it is used as a proxy to _defaults, whereas the section parameter of get() is easily extended. The actual changes are all to the method

[issue39860] configparser - no support for cascading defaults (as defined by MySQL)

2020-03-05 Thread Ben Griffin
New submission from Ben Griffin : While there is now support for a single default group, mysql documentation is clear that there is a cascade of groups for option settings, normally starting with [client], and including version numbers.. This allows generic settings to be overridden