[issue32108] configparser bug: section is emptied if you assign a section to itself

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[issue32108] configparser bug: section is emptied if you assign a section to itself

Łukasz Langa added the comment: New changeset 33cd058f21d0673253c88cea70388282918992bc by Łukasz Langa (Cheryl Sabella) in branch 'master': bpo-32108: Don't clear configparser values if key is assigned to itself (GH-7588) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/33cd058f21d0673253c88cea703882

[issue32108] configparser bug: section is emptied if you assign a section to itself

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[issue32108] configparser bug: section is emptied if you assign a section to itself

Łukasz Langa added the comment: I agree, the fix needs to be changed. What we probably want is to discover this kind of assignment and special-case *that*. -- versions: +Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8 -Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker

[issue32108] configparser bug: section is emptied if you assign a section to itself

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: PR 4607 doesn't look a correct solution to me. I don't know a precedence of calling deepcopy() for a value in __setitem__(). deepcopy() is too heavy, calling it can slow down normal cases. Using deepcopy likely means a bad design. -- nosy: +serhiy.s

[issue32108] configparser bug: section is emptied if you assign a section to itself

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[issue32108] configparser bug: section is emptied if you assign a section to itself

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[issue32108] configparser bug: section is emptied if you assign a section to itself

Łukasz Langa added the comment: Confirmed. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.py

[issue32108] configparser bug: section is emptied if you assign a section to itself

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[issue32108] configparser bug: section is emptied if you assign a section to itself

New submission from Simon Lambourn : If you assign a ConfigParser section back to the parent ConfigParser object (say after updating the section), the section is emptied. (I realise now that you don't need to assign the section back to the parent as it's a proxy for the section in the parent a