[Configobj-develop] Newbie: problems getting started ...

[Stef M. <S.M...@ru...>]

hello,

Coming from windows/Delphi,
I've been using Python for half a year now.

For reading/writing windows ini-files,
I used ConfigParser (already much more difficult than Delphi ;-)

Now I needed an windows ini-file (not a registry file),
where the case of the keys was preserved
(ConfigParser makes all keys lowercase).

So someone advised me to use ConfigObj,
which should be superior to ConfigParser.

So I try to read the manual,
looks very nice and well written.

But when I read the introduction,
"*ConfigObj* is a simple but powerful config file reader and writer"
I miss the "simplicty".

Apparently this simplicity yields for a certain group of programmers,
probably coming from Linux / C,
certainly not for windows/Delphi programmers.

Now my problem is very-very simple,
but I don't get it done,
so maybe someone get give me a few simple ;-) hints.

I open an ini-file for reading:
      ini = ConfigObj ( filename )


I want to see what sections are ther:
    ini.sections

Now I want to see what keys are in 1 specific sections:
    ??????
things like
   ini.values()
   ini.items()
give me all kind of key-value pairs, but without knowing in which 
section they are stored ??

thanks,
Stef Mientki





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