On 03/21/2012 11:40 AM, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Andrea Crotti<andrea.crotti.0 at gmail.com> writes: >> It works - so why do you bother? And I'm not sure about the above code - > AFAIK, validation is a two-step thing: >> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/configobj.shtml#validation >> Diez I don't agree, if you write code that is supposed to work with Python3, using a library which is not developed and will probably never support Python3 is quite a stupid idea ;) Any other validation mechanism that can be plugged in ConfigParser for example? From what I've understood from the doc and what I remembered I thought that validation is automatically done when passing the configspec, but I'll check if the two steps work..