Re: [Configobj-develop] Nested, lists of sections

[Nicola L. <ni...@te...>]

> 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?

You should be able to use Repeated Sections to do this:

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html#repeated-sections

For a larger example, see the doctest at line #1791 of configobj.py .

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