Package gavo :: Package utils :: Module fancyconfig :: Class MagicSection

Class MagicSection

object --+    
         |    
   Section --+
             |
            MagicSection

A section that creates new keys on the fly.

Use this a dictionary-like thing when successive edits are necessary or the DictConfigItem becomes too unwieldy.

A MagicSection is constructed with the section name, an item factory, which has to be a subclass of ConfigItem (you may want to write a special constructor to provide documentation, etc.), and defaults as a sequence of pairs of keys and values. And there should be documentation, too, of course.

Instance Methods

__init__(self, name, documentation='Undocumented', itemFactory=<class 'gavo.utils.fancyconfig.StringConfigItem'>, defaults=[])
x.__init__(...) initializes x; see help(type(x)) for signature source code

set(self, name, value, origin='user')
set the value of the configuration item name. source code

Inherited from Section: __iter__, get, getitem, setParent

Inherited from object: __delattr__, __format__, __getattribute__, __hash__, __new__, __reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __repr__, __setattr__, __sizeof__, __str__, __subclasshook__

Properties
Inherited from `object`: `__class__`

Method Details

init(self, name, documentation=`'Undocumented'`, itemFactory=<class 'gavo.utils.fancyconfig.StringConfigItem'>, defaults=`[]`)
(Constructor)

source code

x.__init__(...) initializes x; see help(type(x)) for signature

Overrides: object.__init__: (inherited documentation)

set(self, name, value, origin=`'user'`)

source code

set the value of the configuration item name.

value must always be a string, regardless of the item's actual type.

Overrides: Section.set: (inherited documentation)

Class MagicSection

__init__(self, name, documentation='Undocumented', itemFactory=<class 'gavo.utils.fancyconfig.StringConfigItem'>, defaults=[]) (Constructor)

set(self, name, value, origin='user')

init(self, name, documentation=`'Undocumented'`, itemFactory=<class 'gavo.utils.fancyconfig.StringConfigItem'>, defaults=`[]`)
(Constructor)

set(self, name, value, origin=`'user'`)