On 2024-10-30, Loris Bennett <loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de> wrote: > Jon Ribbens <jon+use...@unequivocal.eu> writes: >> As per the docs you link to, the read() method only takes filename(s) >> as arguments, if you have an already-open file you want to read then >> you should use the read_file() method instead. > > As you and others have pointed out, this is indeed covered in the docs, > so mea culpa. > > However, whereas I can see why you might want to read the config from a > dict or a string, what would be a use case in which I would want to > read from an open file rather than just reading from a file(name)?
The ConfigParser module provides read(), read_file(), read_string(), and read_dict() methods. I think they were just trying to be comprehensive. It's a bit non-Pythonic really. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
