add the possilibity to use the content of a section as a list. Ie, instead of doing "source.exclude_dirs = dir1,dir2", just create a section [app:source.exclude_dirs], and put one directory per line.

buildozer/__init__.py

@@ -832,6 +832,13 @@ class Buildozer(object):
     def _get_config_list(self, section, token, default=None):
         # monkey-patch method for ConfigParser
         # get a key as a list of string, seperated from the comma
+
+        # if a section:token is defined, let's use the content as a list.
+        l_section = '{}:{}'.format(section, token)
+        if self.config.has_section(l_section):
+            values = self.config.options(l_section)
+            return [x.strip() for x in values]
+
         values = self.config.getdefault(section, token, '')
         if not values:
             return default

buildozer/default.spec

@@ -112,3 +112,21 @@ fullscreen = 1
 
 # (int) Log level (0 = error only, 1 = info, 2 = debug (with command output))
 log_level = 1
+
+
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Alternatively, you can define all the "list" as [section:key].
+# Each line will be considered as a option to the list.
+# Let's take [app] / source.exclude_patterns.
+# Instead of doing:
+#
+# [app]
+# source.exclude_patterns = license,data/audio/*.wav,data/images/original/*
+#
+# This can be translated into:
+#
+# [app:source.exclude_patterns]
+# license
+# data/audio/*.wav
+# data/images/original/*
+#