As I thought, it does not fail silently. You need something like:
if not parser.has_section("feeds"):
parser.add_section("feeds")
Andreas
Am Samstag, den 08.03.2008, 16:46 +0000 schrieb dave selby:
> Hi All,
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> I am using the ConfigParser module, I can 'get' from a config file
> fine, when I try to set it, it silently fails. the code.
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> parser = ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser()
> parser.read('./daemon.rc')
> print parser.get('feeds', 'number')
> parser.set('feeds', 'number', '99')
> print parser.get('feeds', 'number')
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> there is a section [feeds], and option number, it is set to 1. If I
> execute the script I get ...
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/kmotion/daemons$ ./daemon_start.py
> 1
> 99
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/kmotion/daemons$ ./daemon_start.py
> 1
> 99
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/kmotion/daemons$
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> The first call returns as expected, the second should return 99, 99
> not 1, 99. On opening daemons.rc the 'number' option is not changed.
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> Any ideas ?
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> Cheers
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> Dave
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