ConfigParser and newlines

[Minesh Patel]

I am using ConfigParser to parse a config file and I want to maintain
the newlines, how is it possible. Example given below. BTW, is there
an alternative to configParser, should I use 'exec' instead. Is there
any support for yaml built-in or possibly in the future?

test.cfg
============
[Foo_Section]

BODY = Line of text 1

Continuing Line of text 1
============

Executing the code
===============
Python 2.5.1 Stackless 3.1b3 060516 (release25-maint, Mar 6 2009, 14:12:34)
[GCC 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8)] on linux2
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from ConfigParser import RawConfigParser
config = RawConfigParser()
config.read('test.cfg') ['test.cfg']
config.get('Foo_Section', 'BODY') 'Line of text 1\nContinuing Line of text 1'

===============

I was expecting 'Line of text 1\n\nContinuing Line of text 1'
^^^^
with 2 newlines, how can I achieve that with ConfigParser.

 

[Mike Driscoll]

I am using ConfigParser to parse a config file and I want to maintain
the newlines, how is it possible. Example given below. BTW, is there
an alternative to configParser, should I use 'exec' instead. Is there
any support for yaml built-in or possibly in the future?

The primary alternative to ConfigParser is Michael Foord's ConfigObj:

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

I don't know if it has yaml support or not though.

Mike