Hello list ! I'm using the ConfigParser module to use configuration files (what else would it be for ?). But I have a dilema: I'd like to setup multiple "update server" for my application with update "priority".
At first, I thought about adding a new section in my actual existing config file such as: [UPDATE SERVERS] and have options like that: server10 = ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/remote/dir server20 = ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/remote/dir That way, I would simply parse all servers in the "UPDATE SERVERS" section and sort them so I could get the priority (lowest number is higgest prio). But, with this option, I don't know how to download files to a specific local directory. Then I thought about adding some "local10", "local20" options that would have the same number as the server, but ... baah, it starts beeing a pain when you want to maintain and update the server list. Also I would like to set multiple kind of update servers, like http, rsync, having to parse split up the URL is also a pain. So instead of having all the data in a URL and having to parse it, I thought I might specify an option for each params and then build the needed URL. Like proto = ftp ip = 0.0.0.0 port = 21 remote_dir = /remote/dir And I could add extra info that would make my life simplier that I couldn't have in the URL: enable = True priority = 15 local_dir = /local/dir args = "" That way, if I need to do an rsync, I can look for specific rsync options if available. But now, how do I hold multiple servers ? In this case, I thought about having multiple sections such as [SERVER 01] [SERVER 02] [SERVER 03] But it's not very efficient when I want to parse the WHOLE config file to find which servers are available and retrive their options. (plus, "01", "02", "03" would be useless, just for anti-conflict section naming) if section.startswith("SERVER"): ... So I told my self, the best way would be able to have a "sub-section". I could then look for all servers (aka sub-sections) inside [UPDATE SERVERS] and retrieve the needed info. But AFAIK, it's not possible having sub-sections with ConfigParser. So I'm here to ask if anyone has an efficient trick for that ? Maybe an other module based on ConfigParser exists that would allow sub-sections ? I might be looking for something too complicated and maybe some simplier alternative exists which doesn't cross my mind right now. (no, don't tell me to use XML for my config file, it has to be easely modifiable by the user using the most basic bloc-note). Regards, -- Alexandre CONRAD - TLV Research & Development tel : +33 1 30 80 55 05 fax : +33 1 30 80 55 06 6, rue de la plaine 78860 - SAINT NOM LA BRETECHE FRANCE -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
