[issue24488] ConfigParser.getboolean fails on boolean options

2015-06-22 Thread Andreas Hilboll
New submission from Andreas Hilboll: Not sure if this is by design (or if I'm doing something utterly stupid), but I often create a ConfigParser object for my application and then pass this around (or make it global). So when I do something like cfg.set(input_filter, include_filtered

[issue19214] shutil.make_archive should recognize extensions in filenames

2013-10-10 Thread Andreas Hilboll
New submission from Andreas Hilboll: shutil.make_archive should be able to automatically determine the desired *format* from the given filename. It would make life easier, because the programmer wouldn't need to strip the extension from the filename before passing it to make_archive. I'm