[issue10387] ConfigParser's getboolean method is broken
Senthil Kumaran
orsenthil at gmail.com
Sat Nov 13 02:18:12 CET 2010
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:35:49AM +0000, Łukasz Langa wrote:
> This is unfortunately a backwards compatibility concern. Originally
> it wasn't made so that set() converts to string or accepts only
> strings and when the developers realized this mistake, it was too
> late (there were programs using this misfeature). That's one of the
Where would coercing to str() for set methods result in failures or
backward compatibility problems? I think get() methods always return
strings.
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