I've written a simple parser for .ini files; it's not a replacement for
ConfigParser, but you could build such a module ontop of it fairly
easily, or you could build something either more or less complicated.
svn://colorstudy.com/home/ianb/config/
http://colorstudy.com/cgi-bin/viewcv...e/ianb/config/
For instance, here's the code to parse an ini file into a nested
dictionary, like {'section': {'var1': ['value1']}}:
class BasicParser(INIParser):
def __init__(self):
self.data = {}
def assignment(self, name, content):
if not self.section:
self.parse_error(
'Assignments can only occur inside sections; no '
'section has been defined yet')
section = self.data.setdefault(self.section, {})
section.setdefault(name, []).append(content)
usage:
p = BasicParser()
p.feed('config.ini')
data = p.data
.... though generally the parser should be a non-public implementation
detail in a config library. Anyway, not a lot of code, but I think it's
a good piece for building different config parsers. both simple and complex.
--
Ian Bicking / ia**@colorstudy.com / http://blog.ianbicking.org
