Re: [Configobj-develop] YAQAQ - Yet Another Question About Quotes

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

Marc Tompkins wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Marc Tompkins 
> <mar...@gm... <mailto:mar...@gm...>> wrote:
>
>     There aren't any "real" quotes in this file - is there any way to
>     tell ConfigObj to ignore any single-quote characters it finds?  If
>     not, any clever ideas for a workaround?  I did think of replacing
>     "'" with "-" or something, but there are plenty of contractions in
>     this file, and "doesn-t" doesn't look very pretty.  On the other
>     hand, searching for all matched pairs of quotes that appear in the
>     same data item would require me to... well, to re-invent much of
>     the guts of ConfigObj itself, no?
>
>
> I came up with an ugly workaround - actually, it's fine for my 
> purposes, but typographically wrong - I'm replacing all the 
> apostrophes with backticks.  I'm hoping my users won't notice.   
> Actually, of course, I could do another replacement just before 
> printing; I might do that later on if I'm bored.

I'm afraid that you're trying to read a configuration file format that 
ConfigObj wasn't designed to work with. A different ConfigObj could have 
a pluggable parser with a flexible grammar, but I don't have time to 
write that one...

In the meantime your two phase replace sounds like our only option. You 
could replace each apostrophe with a unique character combination and 
then us walk() to replace every occurrence again after reading.

Michael Foord


>
> Here's my first pass at the problem:
>
>     class mcrCodes(object):   
>
>         def __init__(self, codeFileName="C:/temp/Codes.ini"):
>             with open(codeFileName,'r') as inFile:
>                 tmpCodes = inFile.readlines()
>             releaseDate = tmpCodes.pop(0)
>             for index, line in enumerate(tmpCodes):
>                 tmpCodes[index] = line.replace("\'", "`")
>             self.codes = ConfigObj(tmpCodes, raise_errors=True,
>     list_values=False)
>            
>     codeFile = mcrCodes()
>     for code, val in codeFile.codes.iteritems():
>         print code, val
>
>
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