Hi,
Am starting a new thread as I fear the old thread which more than a
week old can go unnoticed.
Sorry for the multiple mails.
I took the approach of Subclassing ConfigParser to support multiline
values without leading white-spaces, but am struct at which position
in _read I should modify to accomodate the non-leading whitespace
based multiline values.
I can guess, this portion in the _read function will require change,
any change to this affects the whole of parsing. :-( Can someone who
has done this before or understands ConfigParser better help me?
# Section I am talking about
if line[0].isspace() and cursect is not None
and optname:
value = line.strip()
if value:
cursect[optname] = "%s\n%s" %
(cursect[optname], value)
# _read method
def _read(self, fp, fpname):
cursect = None
optname = None
lineno = 0
e = None
while True:
line = fp.readline()
if not line:
break
lineno = lineno + 1
# comment or blank line?
if line.strip() == '' or line[0] in '#;':
continue
if line.split(None, 1)[0].lower() == 'rem' and
line[0] in "rR":
# no leading whitespace
continue
# continuation line
print "line:%s\tcursect:%s\toptname:%s"%
(line,cursect,optname)
if line[0].isspace() and cursect is not None
and optname:
value = line.strip()
if value:
cursect[optname] = "%s\n%s" %
(cursect[optname], value)
# a section header or option header?
else:
# is it a section header?
mo = self.SECTCRE.match(line)
if mo:
sectname = mo.group('header')
if sectname in self._sections:
cursect =
self._sections[sectname]
elif sectname ==
ConfigParser.DEFAULTSECT:
cursect =
self._defaults
else:
cursect =
{'__name__':sectname}
self._sections[sectname] = cursect
# So sections can't start with
a continuation line
optname = None
elif cursect is None:
raise
ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno,
line)
# an option line?
else:
mo = self.OPTCRE.match(line)
if mo:
optname, vi, optval =
mo.group('option','vi','value')
if vi in ('=',':') and
';' in optval:
# ';' is a
comment delimiter only if it follows
# a spacing
character
pos =
optval.find(';')
if pos != -1
and optval[pos-1].isspace():
optval
= optval[:pos]
optval =
optval.strip()
# allow empty values
if optval == '""':
optval = ''
optname =
self.optionxform(optname.rstrip())
cursect[optname] =
optval
else:
if not e:
e =
ConfigParser.ParsingError(fpname)
e.append(lineno,
repr(line))
if e:
raise e
--
Senthil
