What INI config file module allows lists of duplicate same-named options?

[Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens]

Am 09.01.2011 21:43, schrieb Thomas L. Shinnick:
> Having (possibly) surveyed all the available pypi config file modules, 
> I still haven't seen one that allows an obvious and familiar extension 
> of the strict Windows INI format.
>
> Each INI-style config module seems to enforce the strict rule: each 
> option in a section must have a different name - no duplicates.  Thus 
> it is impossible to have a simple list, e.g.
>
>     [pathset  uk]
>     pathpair: /bath/*                         to    /london/*
>     pathpair: /bath/upload/**                 to    /london/*
>     pathpair: /firth/*                        to    /forth/*
>     pathpair: /firth/upload/**                to    /forth/*
>
> Rather you must give each line a separate name, e.g.
>
>     [pathset  uk]
>     pathpair001: /bath/*                      to    /london/*
>     pathpair002: /bath/upload/**              to    /london/*
>     pathpair003: /firth/*                     to    /forth/*
>     pathpair004: /firth/upload/**             to    /forth/*
>           |       |      |       |      |       |
>     pathpair068: /glasgow/*                   to    /edinburgh/*
>     pathpair069: /glasgow/upload/**           to    /edinburgh/*
>           |       |      |       |      |       |
>
> This is not ideal for a number of reasons.  Do you know of a library 
> module that has the (optional?) ability to handle duplicate-named 
> options, returning them as a list?
>
> If instead someone can point me to a reasonable Apache-style config 
> module, that might also serve.  I've looked for such and the few found 
> seemed to be either bare bones or clumsily stripped out of something 
> much larger.
>
>
> -- 
> I'm a pessimist about probabilities; I'm an optimist about possibilities.
>     Lewis Mumford  (1895-1990)
>
I've let ini style files alone some time ago.
Whenever possible I use JSON based files.

Your example could then look like this:

{
"pathpairs":{
     "uk":[
["/bath/*","/london/*"],
     ["/bath/upload/**","/london/*"],
     ["/firth/*,"/forth/*"],
     ["/firth/upload/**","/forth/*"]
   ]
}
}

Since Python 2.7, json is in the standard library.
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