Re: New stable release coming up.

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Wari Wahab wrote:
> 
> >I'd be up for Ted's idea for using defaults and then an example-config.py.  
> >Though I should note that if you add a:
> >
> >   sys.insert(0, "/path/to/dir/with/config/")
> >
> >to the top of your pyblosxom.cgi script, then you can put your config.py 
> >wherever you like as well.
> >  
> >
> Where and what could we put in as defaults? One thing about defaults is 
> that when you install pyblosxom, it will still not work the first time 
> as you have to at least point your datadir somewhere in the first place 
> or place in a reasonable default ('../blog').

You put the default values in where you use the dict item.  So instead of 
doing:

  value = py["blogdir"]

you'd do:

  value = py.get("blogdir", None)
  if value == None:
    print "You need to set the blogdir--refer to documentation."
    sys.exit(1)

For most non-critical things it's easier.  Then they only have to add the
items to config.py that they're looking for.

/will


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