[New-bugs-announce] [issue27437] IDLE tests must be able to set user configuration values.

[Terry J. Reedy]

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. IDLE's config module currently hard-codes the file names.  However, configparser can read from files it opens from a filename (.read), iterables of strings (.read_file), strings (.read_string), and dictionaries (.read_dict). This issue is about exposing this flexibility to IDLE tests and being able to clear and reset the user values for each test.

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assignee: terry.reedy
messages: 269685
nosy: terry.reedy
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: IDLE tests must be able to set user configuration values.
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.6

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