Andrea Crotti <andrea.crott...@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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list