Re: ConfigParser: use newline in INI file
On Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 7:41:40 PM UTC-5, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> On Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 6:25:16 PM UTC-4, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > * Ben Finney (Sun, 02 Oct 2016 07:12:46 +1100)
> > >
> > > Thorsten Kampe writes:
> > >
> > > > ConfigParser escapes `\n` in ini values as `\\n`.
> >
> > Indenting solves the problem. I'd rather keep it one line per value
> > but it solves the problem.
>
> If you want to have \n mean a newline in your config file, you can
> do the conversion after you read the value:
>
> >>> "a\\nb".decode("string-escape")
> 'a\nb'
>
> --Ned.
Wow! Thanks so much Ned. I've been looking for the solution to this issue for
several days and had nearly given up.
Jim
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Re: ConfigParser: use newline in INI file
On Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 8:55:31 AM UTC-6, tony wrote:
> On 07/03/2019 14:16, jim.womeld...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 7:41:40 PM UTC-5, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> >> On Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 6:25:16 PM UTC-4, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> >>> * Ben Finney (Sun, 02 Oct 2016 07:12:46 +1100)
>
> Thorsten Kampe writes:
>
> > ConfigParser escapes `\n` in ini values as `\\n`.
> >>>
> >>> Indenting solves the problem. I'd rather keep it one line per value
> >>> but it solves the problem.
> >>
> >> If you want to have \n mean a newline in your config file, you can
> >> do the conversion after you read the value:
> >>
> >> >>> "a\\nb".decode("string-escape")
> >> 'a\nb'
> >>
> >> --Ned.
> >
> > Wow! Thanks so much Ned. I've been looking for the solution to this issue
> > for several days and had nearly given up.
> > Jim
> >
> How does that translate to Python3?
I have no idea. I'm on 2.7.3
I'd be interested in knowing if someone would try it on 3.
I do very little Python programming. I've written a messaging system for
Linuxcnc and could not get it to work using bash, so I tried Python and now,
thanks to you, I have it working.
I can provide you with the code if you want to play with it. When it is run
with an integer as a parameter it displays a message from an INI file.
Jim
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Re: ConfigParser: use newline in INI file
On Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 9:57:24 AM UTC-5, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > Hi, > > ConfigParser escapes `\n` in ini values as `\\n`. Is there a way to > signal to ConfigParser that there is a line break? > > Thorsten And now we know! I think they should have named Python 3 something else -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: ConfigParser: use newline in INI file
On Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 10:38:03 AM UTC-6, jim.wo...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, October 1, 2016 at 9:57:24 AM UTC-5, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > Hi, > > > > ConfigParser escapes `\n` in ini values as `\\n`. Is there a way to > > signal to ConfigParser that there is a line break? > > > > Thorsten > > And now we know! > I think they should have named Python 3 something else I just tried "unicode_decode" in place of "string-decode" and it works. My impression is that it will also work in Python 3 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
