[Moin-devel] Re: Bug in farmconfig.py or user error? (Kevin Kleinfelter)

[Nir Soffer]

On 8 Nov, 2004, at 6:49, moin-devel-request at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> I'll admit I'm not much of a Python programmer. I'm not sure if the 
> following is a bug or an error on my part...
> Setting data_underlay_dir in farmconfig.py has no effect on my system. 
>  farmconfig.py *is* getting executed (I added debugging print
> statements). When I set data_underlay_dir in farmconfig.py, I still 
> get the default value.  Setting it in wikiconfig.py works.
> Printing it in farmconfig before I set it does not print the value 
> from the default class -- it produces an error.
>
> Is it a bug, or am I just confused about how subclassing works in 
> Python?

The wikiconfig setting will override the farmconfig setting - its a 
design. Try to define it only on farmconfig.