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

[Tim Lauridsen]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 09:15 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
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>> seth vidal wrote: 
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>>> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 18:04 +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
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>>>> Jesse Keating wrote: 
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>>>>> On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:47:06 +0200
>>>>> Oliver Falk <oliver at linux-kernel.at> wrote:
>>>>>
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>>>>>> 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...
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>>>>>>         
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>>>>> 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...
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
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>>>> You can take a look at the config classes in yum (yum/config.py) it
>>>> let you define different kind of options types.
>>>>
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>>>>         
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
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>>>       
>> 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.
>>
>>     
>
> actually I was thinking that maybe we should see about submitting it to
> be in python core.
>
> -sv
>
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>   
Sounds like a good idea.

Tim
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