Re: [Configobj-develop] Semicolon Comments and Ignoring Parsing Errors

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

Nicholas Bayle wrote:
> Hello-
>
> I have a need to read an ini file (that I have no control over) that  
> uses ; as the comment marker.
>
> I found the following with respect to that:
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=46F666FC.8080500%40voidspace.org.uk
>
>  > You should be able to switch over the dividers and comment markers  
> that
>  > ConfigObj allows by changing the regular expressions it uses for  
> parsing.
>  >
>  > The regexes are class attributes of the ConfigObj class.  
> Unfortunately
>  > you probably need to modify all of them. This should be quite easy  
> though.
>
> But, as I'm new to all of this, I have no idea how to set class  
> attributes or what the correct regular expression(s) would be.  Can  
> anyone provide examples?
>   

Hmmm... try swapping the hashes (#) in the regexes for semicolons.
> Also, this particular ini file lists duplicate "keyword" names as a  
> way to specify multiple parameters, like so:
>
> TrustedCACert=/etc/CA/admin.pem
> TrustedCACert=/etc/CA/client.pem
>
> This causes ConfigObj to barf--which is fine, because I don't need to  
> read these values, I would just like to ignore the error and move on.   
> Is this possible?
>   

This is actually the default behavior - but you have to catch the 
exception to access the successfully parsed values.

try:
    config = ConfigObj(filename)
except Exception, e:
    config = e.config

Michael Foord
>
> Thanks for any help and excuse my voluminous ignorance...
> Nick
>
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