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

[Michael F. <fuz...@vo...>]

Stef Mientki wrote:
>> 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.
>   

Shock horror - Python is *built* on 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)']
>   

By default ConfigObj treats comma separated values as lists. This *can* 
be inconvenient, so you can switch it off.

ini = ConfigObj(filename, list_values=False)

HTH

Michael Foord
http://www.manning.com/foord

> 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
>
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