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

[Stef M. <s.m...@ru...>]

Michael Foord wrote:
> Stef Mientki wrote:
>   
>> [snip..]
>> 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()
>>   
>>     
>
>   
thanks Michael,
> ini.keys()
>   
but that gives me the section names, so it's the same as ini.sections
> or
>
> ini[section_name].keys()
>   
aha that's what I'm looking for.
> ConfigObj has a 'dictionary interface' - so all the methods available on 
> a normal Python dictionary can be used with ConfigObj.
>
> Simple enough?
>   
Yes that's indeed not too difficult ;-)
the reason why I've so much trouble with this,
is probably that I (almost) never use dictionaries.

Still one other small question, which must be peanuts for you (and others),
how do I read a value as a normal string ?
When I've an inifile with following content:
  size = (134,433)
ConfigObj gives me back a list
  ['(134', '433)']
Undoubtedly usefull in most cases (although the brackets look weird to 
me ;-),
but as I move around and manipulate these "things" all over in my program,
I just want to handle 1 type, for which I've chosen the string type.

cheers,
Stef