Am 09.01.2011 21:43, schrieb Thomas L. Shinnick:
Having (possibly) surveyed all the available pypi config file modules,
I still haven't seen one that allows an obvious and familiar extension
of the strict Windows INI format.
Each INI-style config module seems to enforce the strict rule: each
option in a section must have a different name - no duplicates. Thus
it is impossible to have a simple list, e.g.
[pathset uk]
pathpair: /bath/* to /london/*
pathpair: /bath/upload/** to /london/*
pathpair: /firth/* to /forth/*
pathpair: /firth/upload/** to /forth/*
Rather you must give each line a separate name, e.g.
[pathset uk]
pathpair001: /bath/* to /london/*
pathpair002: /bath/upload/** to /london/*
pathpair003: /firth/* to /forth/*
pathpair004: /firth/upload/** to /forth/*
| | | | | |
pathpair068: /glasgow/* to /edinburgh/*
pathpair069: /glasgow/upload/** to /edinburgh/*
| | | | | |
This is not ideal for a number of reasons. Do you know of a library
module that has the (optional?) ability to handle duplicate-named
options, returning them as a list?
If instead someone can point me to a reasonable Apache-style config
module, that might also serve. I've looked for such and the few found
seemed to be either bare bones or clumsily stripped out of something
much larger.
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I've let ini style files alone some time ago.
Whenever possible I use JSON based files.
Your example could then look like this:
{
"pathpairs":{
"uk":[
["/bath/*","/london/*"],
["/bath/upload/**","/london/*"],
["/firth/*,"/forth/*"],
["/firth/upload/**","/forth/*"]
]
}
}
Since Python 2.7, json is in the standard library.
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