Opened 10 years ago
Last modified 3 years ago
#11538 closed defect
Duplicate options are allowed in sections of trac.ini — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | Ryan J Ollos | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 1.5.3 |
| Component: | general | Version: | |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | config python3 |
| Cc: | Branch: | ||
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Description
The sections of trac.ini allow duplicate options, with later values overwriting those that come first. Two patterns are possible, which could lead to confusing behavior when the user doesn't realize there the value is being redefined later in the file:
- Duplicate sections with the same option.
[trac] default_handler = WikiModule ... [trac] default_handler = TicketModule
- Duplicate options within a section.
[trac] default_handler = WikiModule ... default_handler = TicketModule
While Python 3.x has a much improved configparser module with a strict mode that raises an error when an option is redefined, I'm not sure there is much we can do in Python 2.x using ConfigParser.
SO:5396653 suggests using a dict_type that allows multiple values with the same key, however dict_type is only supported in Python 2.6.
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