On Tuesday 24 July 2007 7:28:59 pm Fernando Perez wrote: > On 7/24/07, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Would it be possible to provide some more context for bad > > sections or keys? [...] > now the exception message reads: > > > TConfigInvalidKeyError: ConfigObj with filename: 'mplrc.conf' > Contains the following invalid keys: ['bogus'] > The valid keys for this section are: ['maskedarray', 'datapath', > 'numerix', 'timezone', 'toolbar', 'interactive'] > > and similarly for invalid sections. At least with the filename and > the list of bad/good values, people should be able to fend for > themselves. If not, let them use matlab :)
:) That should be plenty of information. One comment: if you load mplrc2.conf, which includes an mplrc.conf with a bogus key, the error indicates the bad key is in mplrc2.conf. Is that a concern? > Please update and let me know what happens. > > > It might be nice to be able to deprecate keys [...] > when you deprecate a Key, simply change it from > > class Foo(TConfig): > somekey = T.Int > > to > > somekey = DeprecatedKey > > where DeprecatedKey is a Trait you declare, whose handler/validator > provides the necessary information to the user, sends warnings, it can > even set the proper value in the new form of that information if it > makes sense, etc. Great! > > Raising an error for > > unrecognized keys might be too extreme. Maybe TConfig should have a > > raiseOnKeyError option, so that bad values can be reported with a warning > > instead, and the end user can get up and running without fixing it right > > away. This seemed an important point to me at first. But with well-documented, auto-generated examples, creating minimal examples or stubs in users .matplotlib or .ipython dirs, and a good mechanism for key deprecation, now I dont think it will be a big deal to raise errors on bad keys. It should be extremely rare. Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
