Issues

• Security: quadratic-time denial of service (ReDoS) in section-header parsing

  DiffSK/configobj#281 · Filter by author mohammedix88 opened on Sep 17, 2026

• removed quotation marks if writing keys containing equal sign and "less than" sign

  DiffSK/configobj#273 · Filter by author roe-dl opened on Dec 23, 2025

• escaping issues even in default mode

  DiffSK/configobj#271 · Filter by author gubenkoved opened on Sep 16, 2025
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• list_values causes values with "#" to be misinterpreted

  DiffSK/configobj#270 · Filter by author gubenkoved opened on Sep 16, 2025
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• When _inspec set to True (or list_values=False) leading spaces in the values are lost, and behaviour is not consistent

  DiffSK/configobj#269 · Filter by author gubenkoved opened on Sep 15, 2025
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• Provide a cleaner way to disable inline comments

  DiffSK/configobj#268 · Filter by author gubenkoved opened on Sep 15, 2025

• Add detail to README about release branch vs master branch

  DiffSK/configobj#263 · Filter by author gene1wood opened on Jun 6, 2025
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• update ConfigObj.write() documentation

  DiffSK/configobj#260 · Filter by author udance4ever opened on Jun 3, 2025

• Empty values get added quotes

  DiffSK/configobj#242 · Filter by author mikuhno opened on Nov 28, 2023

• Return default from the validation function

  DiffSK/configobj#234 · Filter by author ldv1 opened on Mar 10, 2023

• the bootstrap readme / utilities described in the readme not working on Ubuntu 20.04

  DiffSK/configobj#222 · Filter by author robdennis opened on Jan 9, 2023 · 5.1.0 - next backwards-compatible feature release
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• Members with min and or max values should not be allowed to be None

  DiffSK/configobj#218 · Filter by author claudiodsf opened on Jul 25, 2022 · 5.1.0 - next backwards-compatible feature release

• \n is not an acceptable key value?

  DiffSK/configobj#210 · Filter by author keko950 opened on Jan 20, 2021 · 5.1.0 - next backwards-compatible feature release
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• Reader and writer must use the same list_values setting to avoid spurious quotes

  documentationeasy
  DiffSK/configobj#207 · Filter by author stefanor opened on Oct 9, 2020 · 5.1.0 - next backwards-compatible feature release
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• Custom Interpolation Engine

  DiffSK/configobj#205 · Filter by author snowman2 opened on Aug 6, 2020 · Someday
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• pushing v5.1.0 to pip

  DiffSK/configobj#204 · Filter by author ccossou opened on Jul 2, 2020 · 5.1.0 - next backwards-compatible feature release
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• Move this project to Jazzband?

  DiffSK/configobj#197 · Filter by author jhermann opened on Feb 18, 2020 · Someday
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• encoding does not work when using StringIO under Python 2

  DiffSK/configobj#196 · Filter by author tkeffer opened on Jan 24, 2020 · 5.1.0 - next backwards-compatible feature release
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• deepcopy in py3k evaluates interpolated strings

  DiffSK/configobj#188 · Filter by author WeatherGod opened on Jul 10, 2019 · 5.1.0 - next backwards-compatible feature release
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• mypy stub for ConfigObj

  DiffSK/configobj#184 · Filter by author Vykstorm opened on May 21, 2019 · Someday
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• Make write atomic

  DiffSK/configobj#180 · Filter by author ctoth opened on Feb 15, 2019 · Someday
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• Comments not preserved on merge

  DiffSK/configobj#171 · Filter by author tkeffer opened on Oct 8, 2018 · 5.1.0 - next backwards-compatible feature release
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• Validation problem with successive __many__

  needs-feedback
  DiffSK/configobj#167 · Filter by author teto opened on May 9, 2018
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• BUG: having a dict in the config file causes .merge method to fail

  needs-feedback
  DiffSK/configobj#162 · Filter by author bob37van opened on Jan 6, 2018
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• Add an option to remove spaces around the assignment delimiter (i.e. allow '=' instead of ' = ')

  easyenhancement
  DiffSK/configobj#159 · Filter by author techryda opened on Sep 19, 2017 · 5.1.0 - next backwards-compatible feature release
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