[Fred]
> I agree that the API to ConfigParser sucks, and I think also that
> the use of it as a general solution is a big mistake. It's a messy
> bit of code that doesn't need to be, supports a really nasty mix of
> syntaxes, and can easily bite users who think they're getting
> something .ini-like (the magic names and interpolation is a bad
> idea!). While it suited the original application well enough,
> something with .ini syntax and interpolation from a subclass would
> have been *much* better.
> I think we should create a new module, inilib, that implements
> exactly .ini syntax in a base class that can be intelligently
> extended. ConfigParser should be deprecated.
Amen.
Some thoughts:
- You could put it all in ConfigParser.py but with new classnames.
(Not sure though, since the ConfigParser class, which is really a
kind of weird variant, will be assumed to be the main class because
its name is that of the module.)
- Variants on the syntax could be given through some kind of option
system rather than through subclassing -- they should be combinable
independently. Som possible options (maybe I'm going overboard here)
could be:
- comment characters: ('#', ';', both, others?)
- comments after variables allowed? on sections?
- variable characters: (':', '=', both, others?)
- quoting of values with "..." allowed?
- backslashes in "..." allowed?
- does backslash-newline mean a continuation?
- case sensitivity for section names (default on)
- case sensitivity for option names (default off)
- variables allowed before first section name?
- first section name? (default "main")
- character set allowed in section names
- character set allowed in variable names
- %(...) substitution?
(Well maybe the whole substitution thing should really be done through
a subclass -- it's too weird for normal use.)
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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