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diff --git a/docs/configobj.txt b/docs/configobj.txt index b9147b4..fb1eab8 100644 --- a/docs/configobj.txt +++ b/docs/configobj.txt @@ -2344,8 +2344,24 @@ From version 4 it lists all releases and changes. 2009/04/13 - Version 4.6.0 -------------------------- +* Pickling of ConfigObj instances now supported +* Hashes in confgspecs are now allowed (see note below) * Replaced use of hasattr (which can swallow exceptions) with getattr +* __many__ in configspecs can refer to scalars (ordinary values) as well as sections. +* You can use ___many___ (three underscores!) where you want to use __many__ as well +* You can now have normal sections inside configspec sections that use __many__ +* You can now create an empty ConfigObj with a configspec, programmatically set values and then validate. +* A repeated section that was supplied as a value in the actual config file would cause an exception (it is still an error but is now handled gracefully) +As a consequence of the changes to configspec handling, when you create a ConfigObj instance and provide a configspec, the configspec attribute is only set on the ConfigObj instance - it isn't set on the sections until you validate. You also can't set the configspec attribute to be a dictionary. This wasn't documented but did work previously. + +.. note:: + + In order to fix the problem with hashes in configspecs I had to turn off the parsing of inline comments in configspecs. This will only affect you if you are using ``copy=True`` when validating and expecting inline comments to be copied from the configspec into the ConfigObj instance (all other comments will be copied as usual). + + If you *create* the configspec by passing in a ConfigObj instance (usual way is to pass in a filename or list of lines) then you should pass in ``_inspec=True`` to the constructor to allow hashes in values. This is the magic that switches off inline comment parsing. + + 2008/06/27 - Version 4.5.3 -------------------------- |