win32text and excluding patterns

Mark Hammond mhammond at skippinet.com.au
Tue Apr 14 05:31:04 CDT 2009


> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 06:44, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au>
> wrote:
> > That sounds easy to describe and implement, but sounds like it would
> > only fall over in some unusual cases. Eg, you still couldn't say
> 
> How about ordering based on pattern length? Longest pattern wins.
> 
> Simple, but should work for most of the common cases, I think?

Indeed :)

> Matt still has an alternative config parser in the works which
> preservers ordering...

Any idea how far off this is?  The 'ConfigObj' module is also a good option with a friendly license...

Cheers,

Mark




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