Saving/retrieving user preferences

[Brian Wallis]

This may be a FAQ,but I cannot find it.

I want to save user preferences, window sizes, recently opened file names,
etc for a python application and I am looking for a package that does this
in a way that is portable across unix/linux and windows (and mac would be
nice as well).

Is there a 'standard' package for doing this in python?

thanks,

 

[Brian Wallis]

(my last post seemed to not get out, sorry if you see it twice)

This may be a FAQ,but I cannot find it.

I want to save user preferences, window sizes, recently opened file names,
etc for a python application and I am looking for a package that does this
in a way that is portable across unix/linux and windows (and mac would be
nice as well).

Is there a 'standard' package for doing this in python?

thanks,

 

[Miki Tebeka]

Hello Brian,

I want to save user preferences, window sizes, recently opened file names,
etc for a python application and I am looking for a package that does this
in a way that is portable across unix/linux and windows (and mac would be
nice as well).

Is there a 'standard' package for doing this in python?

Use internally (almost) any data types you find is best. The save/load is
using pickle.

Bye.
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[Fuzzyman]

ConfigObj is a nice way of reading/writing text config files.

It's case insensitive and handles quoting of keywords/values.

Reading and writing config files are single line commands.

You get access to keyword values using a dicitionary interface.

Values can be single values or lists (including nested lists if you
want).

Lots of other options.

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html

Regards,

Fuzzy
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/

 

[bruno modulix]

This may be a FAQ,but I cannot find it.

I want to save user preferences, window sizes, recently opened file names,
etc for a python application and I am looking for a package that does this
in a way that is portable across unix/linux and windows (and mac would be
nice as well).

Is there a 'standard' package for doing this in python?

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ConfigParser.html

HTH

 

[Peter Hansen]

This may be a FAQ,but I cannot find it.

I want to save user preferences, window sizes, recently opened file names,
etc for a python application and I am looking for a package that does this
in a way that is portable across unix/linux and windows (and mac would be
nice as well).

Is there a 'standard' package for doing this in python?

As you can see from the replies so far, there is no 'standard', if by
that you mean "one single widely used solution". There are a dozen ways
to do it, with (as far as I can tell) no one standing out in popularity.

That said, I believe the ConfigParser approach is probably one of the
best combinations of simplicity and cleanliness.

-Peter

 

[flyingfred0]

If you're creating your GUI with wxPython, you might be able to use
wx.Config and related classes.

http://wxpython.org/docs/api/wx.ConfigBase-class.html

 

[Brian Wallis]

I want to save user preferences, window sizes, recently opened file names,
etc for a python application and I am looking for a package that does this
in a way that is portable across unix/linux and windows (and mac would be
nice as well).

Thank you all for the replies. I have a few options to try now. I'm using
wxPython so might investigate wxConfigBase for a start.

thansks,