On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 22:39 -0800, W. Trevor King wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 09:18:06PM -0800, antarus@gentoo.org wrote:
> > @@ -116,12 +115,13 @@ def parse_config(myconfig):
> >  			print "Setting",x,"to default value \""+confdefaults[x]+"\""
> >  			conf_values[x]=confdefaults[x]
> >  
> > +	options = conf_values["options"].split()
> >  	# parse out the rest of the options from the config file
> > -	if "autoresume" in string.split(conf_values["options"]):
> > +	if "autoresume" in options:
> >  		print "Autoresuming support enabled."
> >  		conf_values["AUTORESUME"]="1"
> >  
> > -	if "bindist" in string.split(conf_values["options"]):
> > +	if "bindist" in options:
> >  		print "Binary redistribution enabled"
> >  		conf_values["BINDIST"]="1"
> >  	else:
> 
> These changes look fine to me, but I'd rather just convert to the
> stdlib's ConfigParser.  That's going to blow away this whole function,
> so I don't see the point in fixing it up now.  Of course, if the
> powers that be think a ConfigParser conversion is in the far-distant
> future, then I'm ok with this as a temporary cleanup.
> 
> Cheers,
> Trevor
> 

There's more, I have a commit in the rewrite that removes the
duplication of options and the resulting standalone boolean variables.
Instead, I turn options into a set which eliminates the possibility of
duplicate entries, plus inclusion automatically implies  a True value,
absence a False value.

So even if this was merged, it'd be wiped away soon anyway.