ConfigParser is a Python module for reading and writing configuration files that have a structure similar to those of INI files in Microsoft Windows.
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Lists in ConfigParser
The typical ConfigParser generated file looks like:
[Section]
bar=foo
[Section 2]
bar2= baz
Now, is there a way to index lists like, for instance:
[Section 3]
barList={
item1,
item2
}
Related question: Python’s ConfigParser unique keys per…
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Properties file in python (similar to Java Properties)
Given the following format (.properties or .ini):
propertyName1=propertyValue1
propertyName2=propertyValue2
...
propertyNameN=propertyValueN
For Java there is the Properties class that offers functionality to parse / interact with the above…
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Python extending with - using super() Python 3 vs Python 2
Originally I wanted to ask this question, but then I found it was already thought of before...
Googling around I found this example of extending configparser. The following works with Python 3:
$ python3
Python 3.2.3rc2 (default, Mar 21 2012,…
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Preserve case in ConfigParser?
I have tried to use Python's ConfigParser module to save settings. For my app it's important that I preserve the case of each name in my sections. The docs mention that passing str() to ConfigParser.optionxform() would accomplish this, but it…
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Where to put a configuration file in Python?
In development mode, I have the following directory tree :
| my_project/
| setup.py
| my_project/
| __init__.py
| main.py
| conf/
| myproject.conf
I use ConfigParser to parse the myproject.conf file.
In my code, it's easy to…
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Python config parser to get all the values from a section?
I want to get all the values from a section using config parser
I used this but it gives only the first value
def ConfigSectionMap(section):
dict1 = {}
options = Config.options(section)
for option in options:
try:
dict1[option] =…
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Writing comments to files with ConfigParser
How can one write comments to a given file within sections?
If I have:
import ConfigParser
with open('./config.ini', 'w') as f:
conf = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
conf.set('DEFAULT', 'test', 1)
conf.write(f)
I will get the…
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ConfigParser vs. import config
ConfigParser is the much debated vanilla configuration parser for Python.
However you can simply import config where config.py has python code which sets configuration parameters.
What are the pros\cons of these two approaches of configuration?
When…
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MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers
I am trying to build collective.simserver according to this manual, with some modifications:
instead of: virtualenv --python=bin/python2.7 simserver/
I am using: virtualenv --python=myVirtualEnv/bin/python simserver
and I managed to come to this…
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Booleans in ConfigParser always return True
This is my example script:
import ConfigParser
config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
config.read('conf.ini')
print bool(config.get('main', 'some_boolean'))
print bool(config.get('main', 'some_other_boolean'))
And this is…
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Python ConfigParser Checking existence of both Section and Key Value
Using ConfigParser's has_section() method I can check if a section exists in a file, such as:
config.has_section(section_name)
What would be a command to check if a key exists as well?
So it would be possible to verify that both a section and key…
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Python ConfigParser: Checking for option existence
I'm using Python's ConfigParser to create a configuration file. I want to check if a section has a particular option defined and, if it does, get the value. If the option isn't defined, I just want to continue without any special behavior. There…
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ConfigObj/ConfigParser vs. using YAML for Python settings file
Which is better for creating a settings file for Python programs, the built-in module (ConfigParser) or the independent project (ConfigObj), or using the YAML data serialization format? I have heard that ConfigObj is easier to use than…
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python ConfigParser read file doesn't exist
import ConfigParser
config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
config.read('test.ini')
This is how we read a configuration file in Python. But what if the 'test.ini' file doesn't exist? Why doesn't this method throw an exception?
How can I make it throw…
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Iterate over sections in a config file
I recently got introduced to the library configparser. I would like to be able to check if each section has at least one Boolean value set to 1. For example:
[Horizontal_Random_Readout_Size]
Small_Readout = 0
Medium_Readout = 0
Large_Readout =…
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