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

[Tim Lauridsen]

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.

Tim
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/attachments/20071002/44b6c31f/attachment.htm>