It depends on what you want to store in your config files and how you use them If you do round tripping (yaml→code→yaml) and want comments preserved you cannot use PyYAML or ConfigParser. If you want to preserve the order of your keys (e.g. when you check in your config files), PyYAML doesn’t do that … Read more
You could also explicitly open it as a file. try: with open(‘test.ini’) as f: config.read_file(f) except IOError: raise MyError() EDIT: Updated for python 3.
The choice between try/except and if-condition is a fuzzy line. If you expect the exception to be quite rare, use try/except as it more closely models thinking Conversely, “expected” exceptions like a configuration item missing, are part of the normal flow of control and the code should reflect that. There is no clearly superior choice, … Read more
In addition to has_section, there is also a has_option method: config.has_option(section, option) From the Python documentation: has_option*(section, option)* If the given section exists, and contains the given option, return True; otherwise return False. If the specified section is None or an empty string, DEFAULT is assumed.
i think im late for answer but it happened for me when i saved Config file as UTF-8 Try saving the file as ANSI.
Use getboolean(): print config.getboolean(‘main’, ‘some_boolean’) print config.getboolean(‘main’, ‘some_other_boolean’) From the Python manual: RawConfigParser.getboolean(section, option) A convenience method which coerces the option in the specified section to a Boolean value. Note that the accepted values for the option are “1”, “yes”, “true”, and “on”, which cause this method to return True, and “0”, “no”, “false”, and … Read more
The biggest issue I see with import config is that you don’t know what will happen when you import it. Yes, you will get a set of symbols that are naturally referenced using a . style interface. But the code in the configuration file can also do who-knows-what. Now, if you completely trust your users, … Read more
You can use the allow_no_value option if you have Version >= 2.7 This snippet: import ConfigParser config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser(allow_no_value=True) config.add_section(‘default_settings’) config.set(‘default_settings’, ‘; comment here’) config.set(‘default_settings’, ‘test’, 1) with open(‘config.ini’, ‘w’) as fp: config.write(fp) config = ConfigParser.ConfigParser(allow_no_value=True) config.read(‘config.ini’) print config.items(‘default_settings’) will create an ini file like this: [default_settings] ; comment here test = 1
Make it a dict: dict(Config.items(‘Section’))
Have you seen how configuration files work? Read up on “rc” files, as they’re sometimes called. “bashrc”, “vimrc”, etc. There’s usually a multi-step search for the configuration file. Local directory. ./myproject.conf. User’s home directory (~user/myproject.conf) A standard system-wide directory (/etc/myproject/myproject.conf) A place named by an environment variable (MYPROJECT_CONF) The Python installation would be the last … Read more