Empty entry for "private_objects" in config causes error

[salexan2001]

After upgrading khard from 0.14.0 to 0.15.1 I am receiving the following error message:

ERROR:root:Error in config file, vcard.private_objects: the value "" is of the wrong type.

The corresponding key in the config file is empty and reads:

[vcard]
# extend contacts with your own private objects
# these objects are stored with a leading "X-" before the object name in the vcard files
# every object label may only contain letters, digits and the - character
# example:
#   private_objects = Jabber, Skype, Twitter
private_objects = 

[lucc]

private_objects should be a list of strings. configobj interprets what you write as the empty string. According to the docs an empty list can be achived with private_objects = ,.

I could hack a special case for the empty string into the validator but am not sure. You could also just remove the line from your config as the default is the empty list.

[lucc]

The configobj docs for the syntax were already linked from the man page. I now added the link also to the example config file. With that I consider it documented well enough.

Sorry that the last update broke it for you but I do not want to code an extra case just for empty values at that point in the config. Please edit your config file.

[salexan2001]

Yes, this solution is absolutely fine. Thank you!