ConfigParser

[Ivo Woltring]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:39:27 GMT, Manlio Perillo
<NOmanlio_perilloSPAM at libero.it> wrote:

>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

just subclass from ConfigParser and add the functionality youself

somthing like:
=== cut here ===
from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
class MyConfigParser(ConfigParser):
  def get(self, section, option, raw=False, vars=None):    # override
the get() method of super
    """get(section, option, [raw=False], [vars=None]) --> String"""
    repl = [('[','['),
            (']',']'),
           ]                                               # extent as
much as U like
    t = ConfigParser.get(self, section, option, raw, vars) # call the
get of super
    for x,y in repl: t=t.replace(x,y)                      # do the
replace stuff
    return t

if __name__=="__main__":
  """test"""
  import os
  open('test.$$$','w').write('[test]\nopt1=Hello[Ivo
Woltring]\n')
  ini = MyConfigParser()
  ini.read('test.$$$')
  print ini.get('test', 'opt1')
  os.unlink('test.$$$')
=== End Cut ===

you can ofcourse do this in reverse for the write function so as not
to have to write the [ etc. yourself.

Cheerz,
Ivo Woltring