Regards.
Since sections in CongiParser files are delimited by [ and ], why
there is not an escape (and unescape) function for escaping
&, [, and ] characters to &, [ and ] ?
Thanks Manlio Perillo
By the way I did some testing because i have a similar thing going on
right now. I found out that
[section]
option = [Ivo Woltring]
is valid and does not have to be translated to
[section]
option = [Ivo Woltring]
to work.
so my current class is a bit unnessesary:
#
# IniFile extents the ConfigParser with my own functions
#
__author__ = "Ivo Woltring"
__version__ = "01.00"
__copyright__ = "Copyright (c) 2004 Ivo Woltring"
__license__ = "Python"
from ConfigParser import *
class IniFile(ConfigParser):
"""IniFile
Is an extention on the ConfigParser class.
It overrulles the write method so it can write directly to a file
provided as
a parameter. The whole filehandling is done by the IniFile.write(fp)
method.
"""
def __init__(self, defaults=None):
ConfigParser.__init__(self, defaults) # supers init
self.replace = [('[','['),
(']',']'),
]
def write(self,fp):
"""write(filename) --> written file"""
try:
f = open(fp,'w')
except IOError:
raise IOError
#ConfigParser.write(self,f)
self._write(f)
f.close()
def _replace(self, txt ,reverse=False):
"""Replace the self.replace stuff"""
for source, target in self.replace:
if reverse: txt=txt.replace(target, source)
else: txt=txt.replace(source, target)
return txt
def get(self, section, option, raw=False, vars=None): # override
the get() method of super
"""get(section, option, [raw=False], [vars=None]) --> String
this get() is an extention on the origional ConfigParser.get()
This one translates html style '[' to '[' etc.
"""
if raw:
return ConfigParser.get(self, section, option, raw, vars) # call
the get of super
return self._replace(ConfigParser.get(self, section, option, raw,
vars))
def _write(self, fp):
"""Write an .ini-format representation of the configuration
state."""
if self._defaults:
fp.write("[%s]\n" % DEFAULTSECT)
for (key, value) in self._defaults.items():
fp.write("%s = %s\n" %
(key, self._replace(str(value).replace('\n',
'\n\t'), reverse=True)))
fp.write("\n")
for section in self._sections:
fp.write("[%s]\n" % section)
for (key, value) in self._sections[section].items():
if key != "__name__":
fp.write("%s = %s\n" %
(key,
self._replace(str(value).replace('\n', '\n\t'), reverse=True)))
fp.write("\n")
if __name__=="__main__":
import sys,os
p = IniFile()
p.add_section('section')
p.set('section','option','[Ivo Woltring]')
p.write(os.path.splitext(sys.argv[0])[0]+'.ini')
print p.get('section','option')
print p.get('section','option', raw=True)
raw_input('Press enter to continue...')
have fun... I do,
Cheerz, Ivo.
