Finally a fresh release ConfigObj and Validate.
* ConfigObj Home page: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html
* Validate Home page: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/validate.html
**ConfigObj** is a simple to use but powerful Python library for the
reading and writing of configuration (ini) files. Through **Validate**
it integrates a config file validation and type conversion system.
Features of ConfigObj include:
* Nested sections (subsections), to any level
* List values
* Multiple line values
* Full Unicode support
* String interpolation (substitution)
* Integrated with a powerful validation system
- including automatic type checking/conversion
- and allowing default values
- repeated sections
* All comments in the file are preserved
* The order of keys/sections is preserved
* Powerful ``unrepr`` mode for storing/retrieving Python data-types
Release 4.6.0 fixes bugs and adds new features, particularly making
configspec handling more flexible.
Full details on the changes can be found at:
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2009_04_11.shtml#e1078
The changelog for ConfigObj 4.6.0 is:
* Pickling of ConfigObj instances now supported (thanks to Christian
Heimes)
* Hashes in confgspecs are now allowed (see note below)
* Replaced use of hasattr (which can swallow exceptions) with getattr
* ``__many__`` in configspecs can refer to scalars (ordinary values)
as well as sections
* You can use ``___many___`` (three underscores!) where you want to
use ``__many__`` as well
* You can now have normal sections inside configspec sections that use
``__many__``
* You can now create an empty ConfigObj with a configspec,
programmatically set values and then validate
* A section that was supplied as a value (or vice-versa) in the actual
config file would cause an exception during validation (the config
file is still broken of course, but it is now handled gracefully)
* Added ``as_list`` method
* Removed the deprecated ``istrue``, ``encode`` and ``decode`` methods
* Running test_configobj.py now also runs the doctests in the
configobj module
* Through the use of validate 1.0.0 ConfigObj can now validate multi-
line values
As the public API for Validate is stable, and there are no outstanding
issues or feature requests, I've bumped the version number to 1.0.0.
The full change log is:
* BUGFIX: can now handle multiline strings
* Addition of 'force_list' validation option
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