config.set_value: added more convenient set_value method to ConfigReader

Author: Byron

lib/git/config.py

@@ -387,3 +387,23 @@ def get_value(self, section, option, default = None):
 			raise TypeError( "Invalid value type: only int, long, float and str are allowed", valuestr )
 
 		return valuestr
+	
+	@_needs_values
+	@_set_dirty_and_flush_changes	
+	def set_value(self, section, option, value):
+		"""Sets the given option in section to the given value.
+		It will create the section if required, and will not throw as opposed to the default 
+		ConfigParser 'set' method.
+		
+		``section``
+			Name of the section in which the option resides or should reside
+			
+		``option``
+			Name of the options whose value to set
+			
+		``value``
+			Value to set the option to. It must be a string or convertible to a string
+		"""
+		if not self.has_section(section):
+			self.add_section(section)
+		self.set(section, option, str(value))

test/git/test_config.py

@@ -49,6 +49,12 @@ def test_read_write(self):
 			assert w_config.has_option(sname,oname)
 			assert w_config.get(sname, oname) == val
 
+			sname_new = "new_section"
+			oname_new = "new_key"
+			ival = 10
+			w_config.set_value(sname_new, oname_new, ival)
+			assert w_config.get_value(sname_new, oname_new) == ival
+			
 			file_obj.seek(0)
 			r_config = GitConfigParser(file_obj, read_only=True)
 			assert r_config.has_section(sname)