On approximately 12/2/2008 3:22 PM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Chris Rebert:
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Glenn Linderman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On approximately 12/2/2008 1:31 PM, came the following characters from the
keyboard of Chris Rebert:
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:18 PM, RON BRENNAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hello,
I have a very simple ini file that I needs parsed. What is the best way
I
can parse an ini file that doesn't include sections?
*Bangs head against wall repeatedly*
I merely glossed the question and missed that all-important second
sentence! fsck!
My apologies, I shouldn't write email before having coffee :)
Fortunately Tim followed quickly with the correct answer to the OP.
Tim provided a correct-looking answer, albeit somewhat complex, as it
doesn't reuse the logic in the ConfigParser. That's why I suggested yet
another alternative, yet left one key item off myself (added below).
As in:
Since it appears that ConfigParser requires at least one section
header, I'll assume the file starts with the following line:
[main]
person=tall
height=small
shoes=big
Thats it. Can anyone help me?
Completely untested:
import ConfigParser
config = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()
config.readfp(open("path/to/file.cfg"))
config.get("main", "height") #==> "small"
Cheers,
Chris
Of course the OP question was that the line you assume isn't there. But if
the ini is simple, maybe it is short enough to read into a string, then
prepend the line, then parse with ConfigParser.
And I meant to add "parse with ConfigParser by passing the combined
string in via StringIO.
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