ConfigParser and .ini files
jim kraai
jkraai at murl.com
Mon Jan 24 04:48:27 EST 2000
"Fred L. Drake, Jr." wrote:
>
> super_banane at yahoo.com writes:
> > The ConfigParser class in the default Python libraries
> > does not support comments given on the value lines, separated
> > by a semicolon, such as:
> >
> > [Section]
> > keyword = value ; put your comments here
>
> You're right, it doesn't.
> Does anyone know of a *real* specification for the .ini format? I
> didn't know this was allowed.
Reference to a *real* spec and why specs are invalid can be found in the
first paragraph of the "Introduction" at:
http://www.cloanto.com/specs/ini.html
XML.com has some (surprise!) regexp-based .ini parsing Perl code at:
http://www.xml.com/pub/norm/part1/getstart1.html
If you read TCL, an .ini manager (looks slow-as-can-be) can be found at:
http://waster.8m.com/iniparse/
--jim
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