minor fixes

Change-Id: Ic8ce37f62071bc928ea10a669da3ac7e43986f47
Reviewed-on: https://forge.frm2.tum.de/review/17156
Reviewed-by: Enrico Faulhaber <enrico.faulhaber@frm2.tum.de>
Tested-by: Enrico Faulhaber <enrico.faulhaber@frm2.tum.de>

secop/server.py

@@ -119,6 +119,13 @@ class Server(object):
                     raise ConfigError(
                         'cfgfile %r: Module %s needs a class option!' %
                         (self._cfgfile, devname))
+                # MAGIC: transform \n.\n into \n\n which are normally stripped
+                # by the ini parser
+                for k in devopts:
+                    v = devopts[k]
+                    while '\n.\n' in v:
+                        v = v.replace('\n.\n', '\n\n')
+                    devopts[k] = v
                 # try to import the class, raise if this fails
                 devopts['class'] = get_class(devopts['class'])
                 # all went well so far

secop/simulation.py

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ class SimBase(object):
             # make a copy of self.PARAMS
             self.PARAMS=dict((k,v.copy()) for k,v in self.PARAMS.items())
             for k in extra_params.split(','):
+                k = k.strip()
                 self.PARAMS[k] = PARAM('extra_param: %s' % k.strip(),
                                        datatype=FloatRange(),
                                        default=0.0)