ConfigParser

[Manlio Perillo]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:39:42 +0100, Ivo Woltring <Python at IvoNet.nl>
wrote:

>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
>


Actually I have written two functions:

def escape(data):
    """Escape &, [ and ] a string of data.
    """
    data = data.replace("&", "&")
    data = data.replace("[", "[")
    data = data.replace("]", "]")
    
    return data

def unescape(data):
    """Unescape &, <, and > in a string of data.
    """
    data = data.replace("[", "[")
    data = data.replace("]", "]")
   
    # must do ampersand last
    return data.replace("&", "&")


Maybe also '\n' to &nl; translation should be performed.




Thanks and regards   Manlio Perillo