[issue2204] document ConfigParser behaviour when a file has same section multiple times

Changes by Éric Araujo : -- resolution: -> duplicate stage: needs patch -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> configparser support for reading from strings and dictionaries ___ Python tracker

[issue2204] document ConfigParser behaviour when a file has same section multiple times

Łukasz Langa added the comment: This bug is superseded by #9452 where the patch includes a `strict=` argument to __init__ which enables checking for section duplicates when reading from a single source. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue2204] document ConfigParser behaviour when a file has same section multiple times

Mark Lawrence added the comment: @Łukasz: could you provide a patch that clarifies the default behaviour. -- assignee: georg.brandl -> d...@python nosy: +BreamoreBoy, d...@python stage: unit test needed -> needs patch ___ Python tracker

[issue2204] document ConfigParser behaviour when a file has same section multiple times

Łukasz Langa added the comment: I personally would keep the current behaviour so that: - creating a duplicate section programatically invokes an error - reading a file which has duplicate sections causes an implicit merge without any exceptions This is quite understandable, more so when you co

[issue2204] document ConfigParser behaviour when a file has same section multiple times

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[issue2204] document ConfigParser behaviour when a file has same section multiple times

trash80 added the comment: I am using configparser after combining 3 or so ini files, I would like to merge similar sections rather than throwing an exception. Right now I have to make sure the ini files all have unique sections, but I would like to able to use same section names, then combine

[issue2204] document ConfigParser behaviour when a file has same section multiple times

Changes by Daniel Diniz : -- components: +Library (Lib) keywords: +easy priority: -> normal stage: -> test needed ___ Python tracker ___

[issue2204] document ConfigParser behaviour when a file has same section multiple times

Raghuram Devarakonda added the comment: > The attached patch is a proof of concept for throwing an exception. If it is not too much of a problem, can you upload the patch to http://codereview.appspot.com? Reviewing there is simpler. Also, you will have to include some test cases in the patch.

[issue2204] document ConfigParser behaviour when a file has same section multiple times

Yannick Gingras added the comment: The attached patch is a proof of concept for throwing an exception. As discussed on the mailing list [1], it has some shortcomings that should be addressed before it is merged. [1]: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009- -- keywords: +patc

[issue2204] document ConfigParser behaviour when a file has same section multiple times

Raghuram Devarakonda added the comment: > Should this 'undesirable' behavior be documented? My thoughts are Document should definitely reflect the code whether the behaviour is desirable or not. > a) All the key,value pairs in the named section be retrived from entire > file. Just appending

[issue2204] document ConfigParser behaviour when a file has same section multiple times

Senthil added the comment: Should this 'undesirable' behavior be documented? My thoughts are a) All the key,value pairs in the named section be retrived from entire file. Just appending the dict. Otherwise, b) An Exception can be thrown if it encounters an invalid Configfile having multiple same

[issue2204] document ConfigParser behaviour when a file has same section multiple times

New submission from Raghuram Devarakonda: ConfigParser.add_section() raises DuplicateSectionError if add_section() is called with the name of a section that is already present. How ever, if a section is present multiple times in a file, readfp() does not raise any exception. Instead, the sections