[issue27437] IDLE tests must be able to set user configuration values.

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[issue27437] IDLE tests must be able to set user configuration values.

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: After moving the config cleanup part of the patch to #27452 and doing further experiments with methods inherited from configparser.ConfigParser, in all 3 versions, I decided that nothing new needs to be added to config.py. I will instead use the prototype tes

[issue27437] IDLE tests must be able to set user configuration values.

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I believe this is enough to test the new Unix keys patch #27173. Will backport the test file and StringIO import and the additions to IdleUserConfParser in config to support backporting tests for 27173. -- keywords: +patch stage: needs patch -> commit

[issue27437] IDLE tests must be able to set user configuration values.

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[issue27437] IDLE tests must be able to set user configuration values.

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[issue27437] IDLE tests must be able to set user configuration values.

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 78a3d3700233 by Terry Jan Reedy in branch 'default': Issue 27437: Add query.ModuleName and use it for file => Load Module. https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/78a3d3700233 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tr

[issue27437] IDLE tests must be able to set user configuration values.

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I don't believe that buildbots have an accessible $HOME that can be written to. In any case, tests of writing user config files should use StringIOs. -- ___ Python tracker __

[issue27437] IDLE tests must be able to set user configuration values.

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Being able to force a rereading of user files from the menu could also be useful for manual testing or after a user fixes a problem. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue27437] IDLE tests must be able to set user configuration values.

New submission from Terry J. Reedy: An important feature of IDLE is that it has default configuration values in idlelib/config-xyz.def files that can be overriden by user values in $HOME/.idlerc/config-xyz.cfg files. IDLE should run and tests should pass both without and with user overrides. I