Re: [Distutils] setup.cfg - to interpolate or not to interpolate

Nick Coghlan writes: > That would make the following the lowest impact resolution that still > fixes the original reported problem: > > - update the ConfigParser (3.x) and SafeConfigParser (2.x) docs to > explicitly say that "%%" works as an escape > - update setuptools and

Re: [Distutils] setup.cfg - to interpolate or not to interpolate

On 28 July 2017 at 15:39, Robert Collins wrote: > On 28 July 2017 at 15:34, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> Clarifying to add: I think this is a worthwhile change, as it helps to >> ensure that the static config files actually *are* static, and hence >> less

Re: [Distutils] setup.cfg - to interpolate or not to interpolate

On 28 July 2017 at 15:34, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 28 July 2017 at 13:30, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> On 28 July 2017 at 01:32, Jason R. Coombs wrote: >>> I’d like feedback, in either ticket, about whether this change is worth the >>>

Re: [Distutils] setup.cfg - to interpolate or not to interpolate

On 28 July 2017 at 13:30, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 28 July 2017 at 01:32, Jason R. Coombs wrote: >> I’d like feedback, in either ticket, about whether this change is worth the >> trouble and if so if there are any ways to mitigate the risks of introducing

Re: [Distutils] setup.cfg - to interpolate or not to interpolate

On 28 July 2017 at 01:32, Jason R. Coombs wrote: > I’d like feedback, in either ticket, about whether this change is worth the > trouble and if so if there are any ways to mitigate the risks of introducing > such a change. The one way I can see of doing this with a graceful

[Distutils] setup.cfg - to interpolate or not to interpolate

In Setuptools #889 (https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/889) and Python 20754 (http://bugs.python.org/issue20754), setuptools and distutils are proposing a backward-incompatible change - to remove ConfigParser interpolation when parsing setup.cfg (and maybe other config) files. I’d