On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Carl Meyer <c...@oddbird.net> wrote: > On 03/18/2011 05:24 PM, Tres Seaver wrote: >> Could the config file contain an optional hint for finding the "right" >> stdlib in cases where the binary copy had been made? I realize that >> parsing a config file *without* the stdlib is painful: perhaps looking >> for a line starting with 'stdlib =' would be enough? > > Yes, this was one possible solution I was considering. Two things bother > me about it: > > 1. It seems... tempting but ill-advised to make it a "fake" ConfigParser > option if in the place where I use it, I'm not actually parsing the file > with full ConfigParser semantics. It might work, but then someone tries > to get clever with a [DEFAULT] section, or interpolation, or who knows > what else, and it breaks mysteriously. That's why I was leaning towards > a specially-tagged comment at the top of the file. Ugly, but at least > not pretending to be something it isn't.
Don't call it ConfigParser format. Call it "ini" format, or whatever. http://bit.ly/hNVmhz Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
