On 10/19/12 11:29 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:09:53 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
On 10/19/12 11:51 AM, kampy wrote:
hi all,
my requirement is to have section with in a section in config
parameters ex:
[AAA]
[BBB]
a=1
b=1
[CCC]
a=1
b=2
Any one help me in understanding how to make sure that config file to
have a structure like this and reading with the config parser
a configuration file is a flat sequences of sections, you cannot do this
That is incorrect.
uh ?
A configuration file is a file containing configuration data. That is all.
yeah,
organized in [sections]. a flat list of sections.
"Configuration file" says nothing about the format of the file. It could
be a Unix .rc file, a Windows .ini file with no section header, a
Windows .ini file with section headers, a Python source code file, YAML,
JSON, XML, a PLIST file, or any other format you decide to use.
If the Original Poster wants an ini file with nested sections, he can
have an ini file with nested sections.
That's not an ini file anymore. That's a Foord-file :)
There's no notion of nested sections in ini configuration files, since
there's no syntax marker to do the nesting
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file#Sections
There is no support for nested sections in the ConfigParser module, but
the ConfigObj third-party module supports it. Otherwise the OP could
write his own code, possibly by subclassing from ConfigParser.
This is not a ini configuration file anymore, since it introduces ad-hoc
markers added that
are not recognized by other parsers.
Which is fine.
But instead of using an exotic, ad-hoc, look-alike ini file,
I strongly recommend using a standard that has native nested elements
(json or yaml)
Cheers
Tarek
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