read() does not return the config object >>> import ConfigParser >>> config = ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser() >>> config.read('S3Files.conf') ['S3Files.conf'] >>> config.sections() ['main'] >>> config.get('main', 'taskName') 'FileConfigDriver'
Regards, Rolando Espinoza La fuente www.rolandoespinoza.info On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:18 PM, felix gao <gre1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I am trying to get the some configuration file read in by Python, however, > after the read command it return a list with the filename that I passed in. > what is going on? > Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jul 7 2009, 23:51:51) > [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> import ConfigParser >>>> p = ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser() >>>> cfg = p.read("S3Files.conf") >>>> cfg > ['S3Files.conf'] > > cat S3Files.conf > [main] > taskName=FileConfigDriver > lastProcessed=2010-01-31 > dateFromat=%Y-%m-%d > skippingValue=86400 > skippingInterval=seconds > Thanks in advance. > > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list