pungi, python and the question: where are the python gurus?

[Tim Lauridsen]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 18:04 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
>   
>> Jesse Keating wrote: 
>>     
>>> On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:47:06 +0200
>>> Oliver Falk <oliver at linux-kernel.at> wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> OK, that might be the better fix. But doesn't it make sense
>>>> ConfigParser also allows int as values? I mean any kind of number
>>>> (int, float, complex) could be handled as string...
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> I know not the history of ConfigParser and why it's only strings.  I
>>> suspect it's because ConfigParser's primary usage is to parse config
>>> files, and in a file it may be non-obvious how to mark something as an
>>> int/float rather than a string.  The reason pungi uses ConfigParser is
>>> that prior to using kickstart files we had our own config files.  I'm
>>> not entirely happy with ConfigParser, but it'd be something of an
>>> overhaul to switch to some other config system, and not one I was
>>> willing to make at this point.  Maybe during F9...
>>>   
>>>       
>> You can take a look at the config classes in yum (yum/config.py) it
>> let you define different kind of options types.
>>
>>     
>
> I've also made a yum-free config.py that takes all the advantages of the
> yum config file w/o needing the yum-ness of it.
>
> you can find it here:
> http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/config.py
>
> we just used in in func and it's rather handy.
>
> -sv
>
>
>   
Maybe, it should be out into its own package (python module), so that 
potential users could pull it in (yum, func, yumex, pungi etc).
and it could be maintained in one place.

Tim
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