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Hi Sharath,

I had not realised this. Wikipedia suggests colons are sometimes used
instead of equals. Perhaps the function should return which delimiter was
found, and use it to generate the merged file?

Mark

On Tue, 7 Jun 2022 at 06:19, Sharath Ck <sharath.madhava at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
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> In kolla-ansible, I am using the merge_configs module to merge service
> configs files. I want to merge api-paste.ini config with my custom changes,
> however while merging if a line consists of one colon, it is getting
> replaced with equal sign. merge_configs splits the line by considering
> colon as delimiter and treats two parts as key and value. Later which will
> be substituted as key = value.
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> Original
> */v2.1: oscomputeversion_v2*
> Merged
> */v2.1= oscomputeversion_v2  *
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> Below, colon will be 1 and equal will be -1,
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> *def _split_key_value(self, line):        colon = line.find(':')
> equal = line.find('=')        if colon < 0 and equal < 0:            return
> self.error_invalid_assignment(line)        if colon < 0 or (equal >= 0 and
> equal < colon):            key, value = line[:equal], line[equal + 1:]
>   else:            key, value = line[:colon], line[colon + 1:]        value
> = value.strip()        if value and value[0] == value[-1] and
> value.startswith(("\"", "'")):            value = value[1:-1]        return
> key.strip(), [value]*
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> I want to keep the config as it is and merge only my custom changes.
> Please let me know how to achieve this or colon can be escaped somehow.
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> Regards,
> Sharath
> Regards,
> Sharath
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