ConfigParser: what read('non-existent-filename') returns in 2.3.x?

[Chris Lambacher]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 02:01:08PM -0700, Danil Dotsenko wrote:
> Chris Lambacher wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 10:50:40AM -0700, Danil Dotsenko wrote:
> >> Wrote a little "user-friedly" wrapper for ConfigParser for a KDE's
> >> SuperKaramba widget.
> >> (http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=32185)
> >> 
> >> I was using 2.4.x python docs as reference and
> >> ConfigParser.read('non-existent-filename') returns [] in 2.4.x
> > http://docs.python.org/lib/RawConfigParser-objects.html
> > That agrees with the docs since read returns a list of successfully parsed
> > filenames.  Note the docs also say this was added in 2.4.
> 
> I just looked at the 
> http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/lib/RawConfigParser-objects.html
> (note the version number) and see the following:
> "If none of the named files exist, the ConfigParser instance will contain an
> empty dataset." Which to me means []. To the least of it, the statement
> should be clarified, but I would still kindly prefer to have someone
> respond / confirm the procedure bellow gives different results in 2.3.x.
That says nothing about the return value.  It says that the ConfigParser
object will contain an empty data set, ie:
config.sections() == []
NOT 
config.read(['doesnotexist.cfg']) == []

since config.read does not explicitly return anything, and therefore you get
None. 
> 
> >> >>> import ConfigParser
> >> >>> cfg = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
> >> >>> a = cfg.read('adsfasfdasfd')
> >> >>> a, len(a), type(a)
> >> ([], 0, <type 'list'>)
> 
> Thx in advance.
> 
> 
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