ConfigParser shootout, preliminary entry

[Tim Daneliuk]

Michael Chermside wrote:

> A few weeks ago, the suggestion was made on Python-Dev that it might be time
> to consider replacing the ConfigParser module and that we should hold a
> "shootout" (ie ask for implementations and see what we get).
> 
> Since then I've been playing around with this... not the parsing part (which
> so far I have completely ignored) but the programmer interface. There needs
> to be a well-thought-out data model for the information stored, and the user
> interface needs to be very easy to use, yet not so "magical" that it becomes
> difficult to understand.
> 
> I have put together what I think is probably my best proposal. It is based
> on a superset of ini config files and java .property files. There is a
> convenient access mechanism ("config.my_app.some_value") as well as more
> general approaches ("config.values['my_app.serviceByPort.80']"). I have
> tried to consider issues like unicode (I permit fairly lenient mixing of
> unicode and str), and unit testing ("... call config.clear_all() in the
> tearDown() method of any unittests that use the config module..."). I have
> even considered carefully what to leave OUT (converting to non-string data
> types, interpolating values, things like that).
> 
> I think that I am now at the point where I could really use some input from
> others. So I'd like to invite people to review my design and send me your
> suggestions. I'm not expecting this as a *useful* module yet (it doesn't
> yet parse files!), but it seemed like a good stage at which to ask for
> feedback. I'm attaching two files, config.py and configTest.py, and they
> are also available from these urls:
> 
>     http://www.mcherm.com/publish/2004-10-17/config.py
>     http://www.mcherm.com/publish/2004-10-17/configTest.py
> 
> Thanks in advance for reviewing this.
> 
> -- Michael Chermside
> 

I doubt it conforms to your thinking on the matter, but some time ago I
wrote and released such a creature of my own invention:

     https://www.tundraware.com/Software/tconfpy/



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