[Configobj-develop] Nested, lists of sections

[brendan s. <spa...@ya...>]

Hi all,

I'm just sitting down to write a new project, and I
was considering using ConfigObj for my application. 
However I'm not sure how one would express the
structure of my data in your file format.  To
illustrate, my data looks like something like this (in
python):

#-----------------begin example---------------------
param1 = 1
param2 = 2
#etc

#the following is an arbitrarily long list
models = [
    Model(
        mParam1 = 4,
        mParam2 = 5,
        #etc

        #the following is another arbitrarily long
list
        mListParams = [ 
            mlParam1 = ModelInner(
                miParam1 = 6,
                miParam2 = 7
                ),
            mlParam2 = ModelInner(
                miParam1 = 7,
                miParam2 = 8
                )
            ] 
        )

    Model(
        mParam1 = 4,
        mParam2 = 5,
        #etc

        #the following is another arbitrarily long
list
        mListParams = [ 
            mlParam1 = ModelInner(
                miParam1 = 6,
                miParam2 = 7
                ),
            mlParam2 = ModelInner(
                miParam1 = 7,
                miParam2 = 8
                )
            ] # end of mListParams
        ) #end of model
    ] #end of models list

#----------------end example--------------------------
 
  
Reading the ConfigObj docs, I can see how to make
nested structure.  But the parser seems heavily geared
towards nested dictionaries.  I'm not sure how to
describe the nested lists.  I could the lists into
dicts before saving and after opening by giving them
keys like "value1", "value2" etc, but I'd rather use a
standard approach.  Does ConfigObj have the facility
to do this automatically?

Thanks in advance,
   Brendan


	

	
		
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