configobj validation

Andrea Crotti andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 19 10:44:21 EDT 2012


On 03/19/2012 12:59 PM, Andrea Crotti wrote:
> I seemed to remember that type validation and type conversion worked 
> out of the box, but now
> I can't get it working anymore.
>
> Shouldn't this simple example actually fail the parsing (instead it 
> parses perfectly port to a string)?
>
> sample.py:
> from configobj import ConfigObj
>
> conf = ConfigObj('sample.conf', configspec='sample.spec')
>
> sample.conf:
> port = some_string
>
> sample.spec:
> port = integer(0, 10)
>
> PS. using configobj 4.7.2

I now checked the repo and configobj seems also quite dead (2 years ago 
last version), it's a pity because it's a really nice library.
Any other alternatives for validation/configuration systems otherwise?




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