Oh, I forgot to add, if you add the following to skins/Standard/skins.conf, the
problem goes away:
[Foo]
[[Bar]]
x = 1
It appears the introduction of new sections is a problem when using
configobj.write
Cheers,
John
> On Jul 14, 2020, at 9:15 AM, John Kline <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> I had a chance to dig deeper into the issues I am seeing at head,
> specifically the weeutil.config.deep_copy function.
>
> I would appreciate it if you could could try to reproduce the problem with
> this StandardReport. Just run wee_reports (there’s no need to restart WeeWX):
>
> [[StandardReport]]
> # This is the old "Standard" skin. By default, it is not enabled.
> skin = Standard
> enable = true
> [[[Foo]]]
> [[[[Bar]]]]
> baz = foobarabaz
>
> If it fails for you, and iff this is legal to have in the weewx.conf file,
> you can instrument the function to see why it happens by adding this to the
> code below to the beginning. You see it fail when running wee_reports and
> know which tmp file to look in. Again, just run wee_reports.
>
> import time
>
>
> fname = '/tmp/config_obj_%f' % time.time()
> print('writing %s' % fname)
>
> fd = open(fname, 'wb')
>
> old_dict.write(fd)
> fd.close()
>
> print('done writing
> %s' % fname)
> print('reading %s' % fname)
>
> fd = open(fname, 'rb')
> new_dict =
> configobj.ConfigObj(fd,
>
> encoding='utf8',
>
> default_encoding=old_dict.default_encoding,
>
> interpolation=old_dict.interpolation)
> fd.close()
>
> print('done reading %s' % fname)
> return new_dict
>
> If this isn’t legal, I’ll need to change [my copy] of forecast as I believe
> this is a typical report entry for reports that include a forecast:
>
> [[[Extras]]]
> [[[[forecast_iconic_settings]]]]
> source = NWS
> orientation = horizontal
> num_days = 7
> bar_size = 150
> show_date = 0
> show_pop = 0
> show_precip = 1
> show_obvis = 1
>
> The above causes the same issue.
>
> If you add the instrumentation code and look at the temp file, you’ll see
> that the sections have the wrong number of brackets.
>
> Cheers,
> John
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