If you catch DuplicateOptionError / DuplicateSectionError when reading a
config file (the intention is to skip invalid config files) and then
attempt to use the ConfigParser instance, any values it *had* read
successfully so far, were stored as a list instead of string! Later
`get` calls would raise "AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute
'find'" from somewhere deep in the interpolation code.
* Add exception for uninstantiated interpolation (configparser)
The current feedback when users try to pass an uninstantiated
interpolation into a ConfigParser is an error message that does not help
users solve the problem. This current error of `TypeError: before_set()
missing 1 required positional argument: 'value'` does not display until
the parser is used, which usually results in the assumption that
instantiation of the parser was done correctly. The new exception of
InterpolationTypeError, will be raised on the line where the
ConfigParser is instantiated. This will result in users see the line
that has the error in their backtrace for faster debugging.
There have been a number of bugs created in the issue tracker, which
could have been addressed by:
https://bugs.python.org/issue26831 and https://bugs.python.org/issue26469
* 📜🤖 Added by blurb_it.
* Replace custom Error with TypeError
Per feedback from @iritkatriel, the custom InterpolationTypeError has
been dropped in favour of a TypeError with a custom message, and the
unittests have been expanded.
* More verbose message
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* Revert "bpo-45173 Remove configparser deprecations"
This reverts commit df2284bc41.
* bpo-45173: Note these configparser deprecations will be removed in 3.12
In the configparser module, these have been deprecated since Python 3.2:
* the SafeConfigParser class,
* the filename property of the ParsingError class,
* the readfp method of the ConfigParser class,
With 3.7+, dictionary are ordered by design. Configparser still uses
collections.OrderedDict, which is unnecessary. This updates the module
to use the standard dict implementation by default, and changes the
docs and tests to match.
* bpo-33251: ConfigParser.items no longer returns items present in vars.
Documentation for `ConfigParser.items()` states:
'Items present in vars no longer appear in the result.'
This fix aligns behaviour to that specified in the documentation.
The fix for bpo-23835 fixed ConfigParser behavior in defaults= handling.
Unfortunately, it caused a backwards compatibility regression with
RawConfigParser objects which allow for non-string values.
This commit restores the legacy behavior for RawConfigParser only.