On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 09:53, Mats Kindahl <m...@sun.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am currently using the ConfigParser module to parse MySQL configuration > files. > Just plain config files, nothing fancy except... options without values. > > There is a number of options here that does not require a value, they are > basically just turning on a feature. They are also common in the standard > template files for the server. Options that are for mysqld can have a value > even > though it is not required and the option file parser will not complain, but > for > some of the client tools, values may not be given or there will be a error. > > Looking at the tests of ConfigParser, I see that it is a deliberate design > decision to not allow options without values (or I am misunderstanding > something). Why? >
Who knows. =) Module is old enough it's quite possible no one remembers why. Maybe the original creator thought it would help catch errors when people accidentally left off a value. -Brett _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
