ConfigParser options spanning more than one line

[Josh Close]

I'm using ConfigParser and I can't seem to get a config option to span
more than one line.

[MyConfig]
var = blah blah blah\
blah continued

Putting the '\' doesn't work

Is there a way to do that? Or do I have to deal with having a huge
long string all on one line?

-Josh

[Nick Patavalis]

On 2004-08-16, Josh Close <na****@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm using ConfigParser and I can't seem to get a config option to span
more than one line.

[MyConfig]
var = blah blah blah\
blah continued

Putting the '\' doesn't work

Is there a way to do that? Or do I have to deal with having a huge
long string all on one line?

Simply do:

[MyConfig]
var = blah blah blah
blah continued

without the '\'. Indentation continues the line.

/npat

[Paramjit Oberoi]

> I'm using ConfigParser and I can't seem to get a config option to span

more than one line.

from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
from StringIO import StringIO
s = StringIO("[a]\n" .... "b = 123\n"
.... " 456") c=ConfigParser()
c.readfp(s)
c.get('a','b')

'123\n456'

In other words, any line with a leading whitespace is considered a
continuation line, and the leading whitespace is stripped from the value
(but the carriage return is left in).

HTH,
-param

[Josh Close]

That works, I guess I'll just have to remove the \n from the variable then.

-Josh

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:31:03 -0500, Paramjit Oberoi
<p_********@hotmail.com> wrote:

I'm using ConfigParser and I can't seem to get a config option to span
more than one line.

from ConfigParser import ConfigParser
from StringIO import StringIO
s = StringIO("[a]\n" .... "b = 123\n"
.... " 456") c=ConfigParser()
c.readfp(s)
c.get('a','b')

'123\n456'

In other words, any line with a leading whitespace is considered a
continuation line, and the leading whitespace is stripped from the value
(but the carriage return is left in).

HTH,
-param
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