On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Marius Gedminas <mar...@pov.lt> wrote: > Yes. Better than appending version pins to an unrelated section, where > they would be silently ignored as unknown option values.
While buildout itself would be happy with this, it could cause problems for tools that use configparser to parse the files: the "strict" mode introduced in Python 3.2 raises an exception if a section is found in a file multiple times (even if the keys don't overlap). While this could be said to be a non-issue (and it's not clearly significant), it's just a stumbling block for anyone working on related tools, especially if compatibilty with both Python 2 & 3 is desired. ConfigParser/configparser remain the dominant parsing library for INI files. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> "A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read." --Samuel Langhorne Clemens _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
