On 28 Oct, 21:55, Dean McClure <bratpri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 28, 4:50 pm, Jon Clements <jon...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On 28 Oct, 06:21, Dean McClure <bratpri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
>
> > > Just wondering how I can get theitems() command fromConfigParserto
> > > not resort all the item pairs that it presents.
>
> > > I am trying to get it to read some data in order:
>
> > > [Relay Info]
> > > relay_name: IPC
> > > relay_current_range: [60, 64, 68, 72, 76, 80, 84, 88, 92, 96, 100,
> > > 104, 108, 112, 116]
> > > relay_current_mutliplier: [1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 1, 2, 4]
> > > relay_i: arcfc/(relay_current_range*relay_current_mutliplier)
>
> > > so I can input the data and then eval() the equation at the end but
> > > when I go
> > > config.items('Relay Info')
> > > It mixes everything up, is there a way to stop this?
>
> > > Here is my selection code
>
> > > variables = sorted(config.items('Relay Info'))
> > > #Get inputs from user for each variable
> > > for variable in variables:
> > > if variable[0] == 'relay_name':
> > > vars()[variable[0]] = variable[1]
> > > else:
> > > vars()[variable[0]] = 'not a real thing this is just a
> > > fake that
> > > will never turn up to establish the variable'
> > > if variable[1][0] == '[' and variable[1][-1] == ']':
> > > if variable[0] != 'Any':
> > > while
> > > (variable[1].count(vars()[variable[0]]) < 1):
> > > vars()[variable[0]] =
> > > raw_input(str(variable)[1:-1] + "\n")
> > > if
> > > variable[1].count(vars()[variable[0]]) < 1:
> > > print 'Setting
> > > unavailable'
> > > else:
> > > vars()[variable[0]] =
> > > raw_input(str(variable)[1:-1] + "\n")
> > > else:
> > > vars()[variable[0]] = variable[1]
> > > vars()[variable[0]] = float(eval(vars()[variable[0]]))
>
> > > Thanks for the help!
>
> > I'm not 100% sure what you're asking, as why should the order be
> > important?
>
> > It's probably worth mentioning that the builtin dictionary type is
> > 'unordered' as it uses hashing to store keys. However,
> > theConfigParsermodule does allow you to supply a dict_type parameter in
> > version 2.6+ [http://docs.python.org/library/configparser.html], so
> > you could provide an 'ordered dictionary' which returns itsitemsin
> > insertion order. There's lots of recipes out there for those, but I
> > believe Raymond Hettinger has a fairly good one on the ActiveState(?)
> > cookbook site. (Google for python cookbook).
>
> > Since however, the idea of processing INI files is that you *know*
> > what you're looking for and how to interpret it, I'm not sure why
> > you're not using something similar to this (v2.6.2):
>
> > relay_name = config.get('Relay Info', 'relay_name')
> > relay_current_range = config.get('Relay Info', 'relay_current_range')
> > relay_current_range_list = eval(relay_current_range)
>
> > ...etc...
>
> > hth,
>
> > Jon.
>
> Sorry, basically I was just using configparser to pull sets of
> variables and equations to calculate the clearing time of a circuit
> breaker. As each device is slightly different and I like the structure
> of the configparser I decided it'd be an acceptable way to do this.
> The thing is that I wanted to have the relay settings in the first
> section, then have sections for different protection settings, all of
> these have a few input parameters and an output for clearing time. The
> user will select the config file for the relay they want and therefore
> not all the settings will be the same, I know this isn't the intended
> use of the configparser but I thought it'd be much easier for people
> to run from their hdd, just a folder of conf files that can be edited
> or expanded on with relative ease.
>
> In order to accommodate for all the different configurations I thought
> I would have (as my code was showing but poorly explained) the
> variable name in the config file (these will be standardised to a
> degree) set to be either a set value or a selectable range in which
> the program will ask the user to select a value from the range. One
> relay may have a value for overload that is a percentage of the CT
> value while others may have a selected full load current which is used
> for everything so having all the input variables and then the equation
> to output the clearing time means that I can ask for the input values
> and evaluate the equation. Or at least I would be able to if I could
> output them in order?
>
As Steven has already said, you're lone to an injection attack, don't
allow it.
What language do you orig. come from? ie, what would you say is your
'strongest' language.
Jon.
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