MNT: More robust timeout parsing, update changelog

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
   `auth_token` if new value is `None`
 * [#119](https://gitlab.com/linkahead/linkahead-pylib/-/issues/119)
   The diff returned by compare_entities now uses id instead of name as key if either property does not have a name
+* [#127](https://gitlab.com/linkahead/linkahead-pylib/-/issues/127)
+  pylinkahead.ini now supports None and tuples as values for the `timeout` keyword
 
 ### Security ###
 

src/linkahead/configuration.py

@@ -90,10 +90,12 @@ def config_to_yaml(config: ConfigParser) -> dict[str, dict[str, Union[int, str,
             if key in ["debug"]:
                 valobj[s][key] = int(value)
             elif key in ["timeout"]:
+                value = "".join(value.split())          # Remove whitespace
                 if str(value).lower() in ["none", "null"]:
                     valobj[s][key] = None
                 elif value.startswith('(') and value.endswith(')'):
-                    content = [int(s) for s in value[1:-1].split(',')]
+                    content = [None if str(s).lower() in ["none", "null"] else int(s)
+                               for s in value[1:-1].split(',')]
                     valobj[s][key] = tuple(content)
                 else:
                     valobj[s][key] = int(value)