On 2006-08-06, Fabian Braennstroem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> * Ben C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 2006-08-05, Fabian Braennstroem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I want to get access to my abook address file with python.
>>> Does anyone have some python lines to achive this using
>>> curses? If not, maybe anybody has small python program doing
>>> it with a gui!?
>>
>> You can just parse the abook addressbook with the ConfigParser, try
>> this:
>>
>> import os
>> from ConfigParser import *
>>
>> abook = ConfigParser()
>> abook.read(os.environ["HOME"] + "/.abook/addressbook")
>>
>> for s in abook.sections():
>> print abook.items(s)
>
> Thanks! I found a different example too:
>
> import ConfigParser
> import string
>
> config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser()
>
> config.read("/home/fab/.abook/addressbook")
>
> # print summary
> print
> for number in [2,200]:
> print string.upper(config.get(str(number), "email"))
> print string.upper(config.get(str(number), "name"))
> print string.upper(config.get(str(number), "city"))
> print string.upper(config.get(str(number), "address"))
>
> but the problem seems to be that abook does not write every
> field, so I get an exception when there is a field missing:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "configparser-example-1.py", line 13, in ?
> print string.upper(config.get(str(number), "city"))
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/ConfigParser.py", line 520, in get
> raise NoOptionError(option, section)
> ConfigParser.NoOptionError: No option 'city' in section: '2'
>
> Section 2 looks like:
>
> [2]
> name=Andrs Gzi
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> nick=oz
>
> Is there a workaround?
You can construct the parser with a dictionary of defaults:
config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser({"city" : "unknown",
"zip" : "unknown"})
that kind of thing.
Or catch the exceptions. Or use config.options("2") to see what options
exist in section 2 before you try to read them.
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