New submission from Edwin Pozharski <pozhar...@gmail.com>:
set() method of ConfigParser accepts boolean True/False as values at runtime
without converting them to strings internally. As a result, getboolean()
method reports the following error
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ConfigParser.py", line 350, in getboolean
if v.lower() not in self._boolean_states:
AttributeError: 'bool' object has no attribute 'lower'
since it expects get() method to return strings. (Same problem occurs if other
types are used, int/float, etc)
Altering set() behavior may be not the best thing to do, I'd rather suggest
that getboolean() converts the get() output to string.
Of course, the way to avoid this problem is always convert values submitted to
set() to strings, but it's a hard-to-catch bug. In my case, I was stuck with
problematic configuration when assigning values to wx.CheckBox.GetValue(),
which returns boolean.
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messages: 106912
nosy: Edwin.Pozharski
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: ConfigParser.set does not convert non-string values
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6
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