Iyer wrote:
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>
> I cannot change the config file layout -- it is a
<snip>
> [dir_options]
> dir="/home/florian"
> dir="/home/john"
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> what method would you suggest to read each "dir" value
> above from the config_file.lay?
Internally, the ConfigParser implementation uses dictionaries to store
sections and section contents making it impossible to have duplicate
sections or option names - this file is against the philosophy of the
parser.
If these dir values are all you're interested in, you could write a very
simple parser only for them in a few lines.
Alternatively I think you'll have to trick the parser into thinking
these are different options by overriding optionxform, to mangle the
option name and make it unique:
>>> from random import random
>>> class DuplicateOptionParser(ConfigParser):
... def optionxform(self, option):
... return option.lower() + '____' + str(random()) + str(random())
...
>>> parser = DuplicateOptionParser()
>>> parser.read('xyz.ini')
>>> parser.items('dir_options')
[('dir____0.2893357144260.69151552211', '"/home/whoever"'),
('dir____0.8258732656650.272559810163', '"/home/florian"'),
('dir____0.6565224032210.703769464586', '"/home/john"')]
Note that it will do this for *all* options in your file, even those
that have no duplicates. You'll have to trim the part starting with
'____' before using them.
--
Yours,
Andrei
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